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  1. J.D. Salinger _ Hapworth 16, 1924

    God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!
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  2. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.
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  3. Ann Patchett _ What Now?

    Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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  4. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to "rule over the earth"; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.
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  5. Jayne Ann Krentz _ No Going Back: Soft Focus /

    A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.
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  6. Janet Evanovich _ Two for the Dough

    It's not a nice thing to send a penis to a woman. It's disrespectful.
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  7. Ivo Andrić _ The Bridge on the Drina

    ...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.
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  8. E.M. Forster _ A Room with a View

    {S}he might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning.
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  9. Khaled Hosseini _ A Thousand Splendid Suns

    she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.
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  10. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    The "mystique" that Friedan spoke of was the image of the woman as mother, wife, living through her husband, through her children, giving up her own dreams for that. She concluded: "The only way for a woman as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
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  11. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    Right after women got the vote, the measure of their social progress can be seen in an advice column written by Dorthy Dix that appeared in newspapers all over the country. The woman should not merely be a domestic drudge, she said:. . . .a man's wife is the show window where he exhibits the measure of his achievement. . . . The biggest deals are put across over luncheon tables; . . . we meet at dinner the people who can push our fortunes. . . . The woman who cultivates a circle of worthwhile people, who belongs to clubs, who makes herself interesting and agreeable. . . . is a help to her husband."
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  12. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper in Ruleville, Mississippi, became legendary as organizer and speaker. She sang hymns; she walked picket lines with her familiar limp {as a child she contracted polio}. She roused people to excitement at mass meetings: "I'm sick an' tired o' bein' sick an' tired!
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