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Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Every literate woman is a victory over poverty.
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Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you?'' is already destroyed.
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Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
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Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
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Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
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First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;
If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't.
But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.Source: Zara (1735)
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