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Quote by Jean Giraudoux
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirer

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. – Jean Giraudoux

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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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Imagination
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. – Jean Giraudoux

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Flowers
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Womens fashion is a subtle form of bondage. Its mens way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But theyre actually tied up. – David Duchovny

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Study men, not historians. – Harry S. Truman

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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. – Susan B. Anthony

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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. – Albert Pike

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