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Her Quotes by Rachel Cusk
- The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it,…
- As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from…
- In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and…
- The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the…
- The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her…
- The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a…
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- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels… — Jane Austen
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know… — Jensen Ackles
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. — Amitabh Bachchan