Quote by Anaïs Nin
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, w

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. – Anaïs Nin

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Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. – Ralph Nader

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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex. – Lily Tomlin

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

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. – Isadora Duncan

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