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Woman 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,…
- I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
- 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…
- What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different…
- 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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- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
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- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall