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> [Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/perhaps-a-reign-of-powerful-women-is-necessary-to-make-or-unmake-when/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

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## More by Natalie Clifford Barney

> [Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/paris-has-always-seemed-to-me-to-be-the-only-city-in-which-one-can/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/doubt-seems-the-only-purity-for-those-who-are-too-fervent-to-deny-and/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/hero-worship-has-died-with-heroes-and-if-someone-bows-down-today-it/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/a-good-book-is-never-exhausted-we-are-never-exhausted-by-a-good-book/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/like-all-religions-love-has-more-believers-than-practitioners/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Might I be the one I am looking for?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/might-i-be-the-one-i-am-looking-for/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Lovers should also have their days off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/lovers-should-also-have-their-days-off/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/would-that-well-thinking-people-should-be-replaced-by-thinking-ones/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/to-mis-quote-is-the-very-foundation-of-original-style-the-success-of/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/tea-that-perfume-that-one-drinks-that-connecting-hyphen/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/our-prejudices-our-antipathies-are-our-natural-defenses-against-what/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/fatalism-is-the-lazy-man-s-way-of-accepting-the-inevitable/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [If only art were as rare as good taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/if-only-art-were-as-rare-as-good-taste/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/time-engraves-our-faces-with-all-the-tears-we-have-not-shed/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

> [Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-clifford-barney/indiscretion-has-always-seemed-to-me-to-be-one-of-the-privileges-of/)

[Natalie Clifford Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-clifford-barney/)

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