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- I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...
(W. Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge")
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- No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.
(Willa Cather, "My Ántonia")
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- I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren't here, and just now - like a knife-slit - they are here, still dripping sweet blood.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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- The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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- Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.
(Zadie Smith, "White Teeth")
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- He looked like the love thoughts of women.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- She couldn't make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom - a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung above him. He was a glance from God.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- From the first day we hid the woman within the man, so that at the right time we could remove her from within him. We didn't create man to live alone; she was purposed from the beginning. By taking her out of him, he birthed her in a sense. We created a circle of relationship, like our own, but for humans. She, out of him, and now all the males, including me, birthed through her, and all originating, or birthed, from God.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.
(Tom Robbins, "Still Life with Woodpecker")
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- Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or rather woman, or rather Alfred -Get your skirt on Alfred!
(Tom Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead")
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