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Patricia Meyer Spacks

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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

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Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

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The clichÃ© that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

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