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We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities -- courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning -- whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage. (Allende Isabel)
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. (Allende Isabel)
Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. (Allende Isabel)
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain? (Allende Isabel)
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in. (Allende Isabel)
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. (Allende Isabel)
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to. (Allende Isabel)
Eve is a twofold mystery. (Allende Isabel)
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. (Allende Isabel)
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him. (Allende Isabel)
You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady. (Allende Isabel)
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. (Allende Isabel)
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking. (Allende Isabel)
Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country. (Allende Isabel)
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. (Allende Isabel)
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. (Allende Isabel)
Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. (Allende Isabel)
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. (Allende Isabel)
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so. (Allende Isabel)
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. (Allende Isabel)
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. (Allende Isabel)
We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men. (Allende Isabel)
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. (Allende Isabel)
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. (Allende Isabel)
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman. (Allende Isabel)
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