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Women Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and…
- Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
- I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under…
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
- When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
- We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and…
- She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly…
- There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could…
- The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go…
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- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
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