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All of the women I know feel a little like outlaws.
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Rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.
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Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
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Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
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She died for truth, and she died of it. Some truths are mortal illnesses.
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It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?
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In a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.
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I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.
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Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
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When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
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The truth is that it is not the sins of the fathers that descend unto the third generation, but the sorrows of the mothers.
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Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.
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The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.
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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
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'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
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They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to us than aggression.
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Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.
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You can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.
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In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.
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Wife or whore, women are the most scorned class in America. You may hate niggers and PRs and geeks, but you're a little frightened of them. Women don't get even the respect of fear.
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Habit is a good thing for the human race.... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.
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Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.
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There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.
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I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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Born:
November 21, 1929
Died:
May 2, 2009
(aged 79)
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