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Quote by Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists prin

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. – Joseph Conrad

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

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legal
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. – Joseph Conrad

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Weather
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. – Joseph Conrad

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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

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. – Jane Fonda

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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. – Spanish Proverb

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The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor. – Wilma Scott Heide

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My moms a Catholic, and my dads a Jew, and they didnt want anything to do with anything. – Isabelle Huppert

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. – Demosthenes

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People said that man had changed: the weakness of people’s health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true? – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

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