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If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

— Christopher Hampton Savages (1974)

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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

The Philanthropist (1969)

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

The Philanthropist (1969)

Brecht always liked people to be aware that they were in a theatre. I said to him more than once, but Brecht, what makes you think they think they're anywhere else?

Tales from Hollywood (1983)

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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