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Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 2.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 2.

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All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

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Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Speech at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 18 Mar. 1922, Ahmedabad, India.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

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There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.

Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini, Benito. "Forza e consenso [Strength and Consent]." Da Gerarchia. Mar. 1923.

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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by William Trask. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, preface.

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Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Witold von Hulewicz. 13 Nov. 1925.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926, translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

D.H. Lawrence

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Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923, ch. 5.

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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne LaFollette

The Beginnings of Emancipation

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage and Morals

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Russell, Bertrand. Marriage and Morals. Allen & Unwin, 1929, ch. 5.

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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger

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Woman and the New Race

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Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentano's, 1920, ch. 8.

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The most decisive actions of our life-I mean those that our most likely to decide the whole course of our future-are more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 16.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 16.

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The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James George Frazer

The Golden Bough

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Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough. London: The Macmillan Company, 1922, ch. 18, sect. 3.

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Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Oxford University Press, 1998, ch. 18, sect. 3.

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How can you hesitate? Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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Mansfield, Katherine. Journal entry. 10 Oct. 1922.

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Mansfield, Katherine. The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. Vol. 2, Lincoln University Press, 1997.

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It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Adkins v. Children's Hospital

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Adkins v. Children's Hospital. United States Reports, vol. 261, 9 Apr. 1923, pp. 567-571. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/250/616/.

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Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, H. L. "Editorial." American Mercury, July 1928.

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Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 7.

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Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." Scribner's Magazine, May 1929 - Oct. 1929, bk. 2, ch. 21.

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Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Scribners, 1995, bk. 2, ch. 21.

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

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Neruda, Pablo. "Puedo Escribir [Tonight I Can Write]." Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada [Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]. 1924.

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