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I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#ugliness #beauty

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#countries #exploited #interests #oppressed #same

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#demand #interests #making #principle #proletarian

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#everybody #going #i #just #mean

We've been called, and He has blessed. ↗

— Willie Aames

#blessed #called

My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#anger-impressions #angry #break-up #break-ups #depression

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#better #boyhood #city #great #great need

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#greatness #many #presidents #success #war

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#command #editing #editor #even #first

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#writing-craft #business