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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. – Marya Mannes

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The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. – Marya Mannes

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Solitude
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Marya Mannes
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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. – Marya Mannes

Category:
Feminism
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. – Barbra Streisand

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Ive exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars. – Erma Bombeck

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.. its a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you dont need to have anything else; and if you dont have it, it doesnt much matter what else you have. – James Barrie

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Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. – Author Unknown

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