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Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take...

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I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I ...

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Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' h...

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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, ...

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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New ...

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It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest dem...

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I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresse...

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And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the ...

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Joanna RussHow to Suppress Women's Writing

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is ofte...

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What did we talk about?I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my ...

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There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference tr...

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The game is a dominance game called I Must Impress This Woman. Failure makes the active player play ...

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There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...

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Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina...

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Jodi PicoultHandle with Care

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there...

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Jodi PicoultSecond Glance

Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I beli...

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Joe BidenPromises to Keep: On Life and Politics

God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you t...

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I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadi...

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You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you t...

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I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadi...

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You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends ...

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I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely...

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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more fami...

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A maidenhead, the virgin's troubleIs well-compare-d to a bubbleon a navigable riverSoon 'tis touched...

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John ClareSelected Poems and Prose of John Clare

Divorced?''Separated.'He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got a...

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John CrowleyAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

The door of the bar opened, showing him a momentary oblong of true daylight, blankly white. A woman ...

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John CrowleyAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Go and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are,Or who c...

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I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they wa...

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I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that ...

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Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, lo...

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A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blosso...

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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and l...

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Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are il...

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I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by...

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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out th...

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John ScalziYour Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever

And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happi...

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Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops...

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She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place ...

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John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

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John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath

The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, impr...

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He hated old women. They frightened him. There was a smell about them that gave him the willies. The...

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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to th...

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Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting...

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John UpdikeRabbit Redux

The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking...

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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from v...

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Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and ...

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...

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Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anza...

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His heart cracked, and he fell in love. He wondered if she would marry him. “Tu sei pazzo,” she told...

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Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. Th...

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Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerf...

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Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe t...

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The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equali...

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But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give enco...

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One should remember that where nobody flees, there is no pursuer: that where there are no little fis...

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....let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of min...

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José RizalLiham para sa Kababaihan ng Malolos

The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feel...

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He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is...

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... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't...

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Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.

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Joyce Carol OatesFoxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in ...

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Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out...

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He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They...

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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard t...

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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny an...

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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle ag...

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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also exp...

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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a...

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If you think there’s a thing—anything—women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

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Kameron HurleyThe Geek Feminist Revolution

She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman...

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Jung ChangWild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached ...

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Jung ChangWild Swans: Three Daughters of China

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person ...

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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does no...

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In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political...

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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — yo...

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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. T...

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