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Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised."Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, a...

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Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised."Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, a...

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Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised."Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, a...

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Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised."Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, a...

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The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

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Simone de BeauvoirMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, d...

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Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up som...

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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom th...

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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

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Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...

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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

O Sacred Heart of Mary!" she murmured by his side, and he felt how that name was food and raiment, f...

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She felt the phrase “demand her rights” had lain inside her forever, waiting.

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of origina...

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Joanna RussHow to Suppress Women's Writing

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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