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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a…
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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a…
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I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
— Roberto Cavalli
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My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity,…
— Michelle Obama
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She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything…
— Terry Goodkind
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He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her…
— Doris Lessing
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This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose…
— Christine De Pisan
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