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Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become t

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything). – Julie Burchill

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These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what theyve got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney. – Julie Burchill

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Beauty
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Theres something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. – Julie Burchill

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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

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Women

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isnt worth ruling. – Louisa May Alcott

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Womens virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Women

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. – Jennifer Lopez

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