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Women Quotes by Anita Brookner
- Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
- A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever…
- Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
- Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
- It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go…
- I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi
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