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Quote by Henry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. - Henry

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Art
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Adams

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If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell

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Men & Women

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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Men & Women

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself — on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life… – Simone de Beauvoir

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Men & Women

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it. – Bella Abzug

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Men & Women

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And gain is gain, however small. – Robert Browning

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In this business, until youre known as a monster youre not a star. – Bette Davis

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Well, when youre the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, Well, lets hope he doesnt kill a guy. – Chris ODowd

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Music is like a huge release of tension. – James Taylor

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Music