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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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No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control. – Julie Burchill

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sad
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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be nothing. What a woeful lack of love for ones country such statements express. – Julie Burchill

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Family
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Ive always thought of beauty therapy, alternative treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels – for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched. – Julie Burchill

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Beauty
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In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-workers party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image. – Sloane Crosley

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Women

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, But thats happened to ME! I know just what shes talking about! – Erma Bombeck

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Women

Theres very little advice in mens magazines, because men dont think theres a lot they dont know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, I know what Im doing, just show me somebody naked. – Jerry Seinfeld

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Women

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. Youre trying to pack a lot in. – Christine Baranski

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Women

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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena. – Jim Leach

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Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart’s curtain? – Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, “The Fourth Elegy,” translated from German by

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Heart

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. – William Menninger

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The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they dont smell. The food is unreal, it doesnt taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert. – Ethel Barrymore

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Film / Filmmaking / Movies