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„Мужчина ревнует, потому что слишком любит себя самого; женщина ревнует, потому что недостаточно любит себя.“

„Даже сплющенный своими собратьями в лондонской подземке, англичанин отчаянно делает вид, что он здесь один.“

„Я люблю мужчин — так, как любят хорошую еду или вино.“

„Библиотека - это место, где вы можете потерять свою невинность, не потеряв девственности.“

„Фрейд — отец психоанализа. А матери у психоанализа нет.“

„Большая часть женщин все еще нуждается в собственной комнате, и единственный способ найти ее — выйти из своего дома.“

„В Англии преобладают два типа женщин: одни не могут рассказать анекдот, другие не могут его понять.“

„Безопасность — это когда все известно заранее, когда с тобой ничего не может случиться; безопасность — это отрицание жизни.“

“The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.”

“The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people’s reproductive behaviour, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.”

“This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write.”

“The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”

“Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.”

“Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.”

“The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.”

“How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?”

“Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.”

“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.”

“How do we form ourselves into an activity—a force to improve the situation? I don't have the answers. I'm an academic—[we're] the most useless people in the world.”

“The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the sexual object sought by all men, and all women. She is of neither sex for she herself has no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others. All she must contribute is her existence. She need achieve nothing, for she is the reward of achievement. She need never give positive evidence of her moral character because virtue is assumed from her loveliness, and her passivity.”