I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

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