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Women have traditionally accommodated themselves to men's needs. Men's needs being, of course, double. You put us on a pedestal in order to look up our skirts.
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He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.
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Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
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Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Julian Barnes
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January 19, 1946
(age 78)
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