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Quote by Marya Mannes
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or genet

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. – Marya Mannes

Other quotes by Marya Mannes

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. – Marya Mannes

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Solitude
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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. – Marya Mannes

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Dreams
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Other Quotes from
Feminism
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – Timothy Leary

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Feminism

History is herstory too. – Author Unknown

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Feminism

Give a woman a job and she grows balls. – Jack Gelber

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Feminism

Women are all female impersonators to some degree. – Susan Brownmiller

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Feminism

Random Quotes

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. – Buddha

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Goodness

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years. – Michele Bachmann

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Education

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love. – Proverb

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Love

The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they dont have it in your size.
If you like it and it fits, you cant afford it.
If you like it, it fits and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wear it.
If the shoe fits, its ugly. – Proverb

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Shopping