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

Other quotes by Anaïs Nin

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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Confidence
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin

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Body
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

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Self-Discovery
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. – Bella Abzug

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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. – Joan Baez, “Sexism Seen but not Heard,” Los Angeles Times, 1974

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Feminism

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. – Sheila Rowbotham

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When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. – Julia Ward Howe

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. – Albert Einstein

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