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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nym

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. – Iris Murdoch

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. – Iris Murdoch

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Love
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Iris Murdoch
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch

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Marriage
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. – Susan B. Anthony

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Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet. – Brendan Francis

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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally. – Maya Angelou

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Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. – Bell Hooks

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Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. – Henry Cabot Lodge

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