Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

—Lawana Blackwell

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Age is no guarantee of maturity.

—Lawana Blackwell

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

—Lawana Blackwell

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

—Lawana Blackwell

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

—Lawana Blackwell

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

—Lawana Blackwell

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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

—Joseph L. Mankiewicz

I hate women because they always know where things are.

—Jilly Cooper

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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

—James Thurber

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

—H. L. Mencken

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How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behavior and the sphere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

—George Bernard Shaw

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