“There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.”
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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