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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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Miscellaneous
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Writing
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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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Confidence
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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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Feminism

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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Feminism
[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. – Pat Robertson

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Feminism

It starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink. – Author Unknown

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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. – Natalie Wood

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Never think that Gods delays are Gods denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius. – Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point – if not a commodity – of political groups aiming to rise to power. – Omar Bongo

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. – E. M. Cioran

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