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... a woman... told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I just keep showing up for my life. Showing up for life. Being blessed with the rebirth that recovery brings.
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... no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.
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...whoever imagines a woman after this model, which consists in saying little things in big words, will see a pretty girl adorned with mirrors and chains...
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
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A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; and to an old maid, charity.
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A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
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