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“In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“It’s like being a duck. Calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddling like hell underneath.”
― Barbara Stanny, Secrets of Six-Figure Women

“We all have wanted, at one time or another, to appear as an idealized self. "I'm actually a quite different person," as the playwright Ödön von Horváth wrote, "I just never get around to being him.”
― Tom Vanderbilt, You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice

“He simply believed that lame sex destroyed more marriages than did anything else, and that “considering the inveterate marriage habit of the race,” something ought to be done.”
― Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex