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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

— Jessamyn West

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We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

I never meet anyone nowadays who admits to having had a happy childhood. Everyone appears to think happiness betokens a lack of sensitivity.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise — when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

To See the Dream (1956)

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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