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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- bring them softness, teach them how to cry. -Joan Baez.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

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.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.