D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Women
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?
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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
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It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.
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[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.
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That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.
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It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation - none of them - not in the long run. In the long run she only says Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me. And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.
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A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.
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