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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smash

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my fathers head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. – Alice Walker

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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because Im the Earth. I wont give up until the Earth gives up. – Alice Walker

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Earth
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, its wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. – Alice Walker

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Freedom
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didnt want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. – Alice Walker

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You know, when you dont go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly in the know, start whispering that youre gay. If I were gay, I wouldnt be ashamed to admit it, but Im not. – Adam Sandler

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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. – Elizabeth Metcalf

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I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen. – Marilyn Monroe

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