"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
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"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.“
-Marya Mannes
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