Alice Hoffman - Women Quotes

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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

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