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I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that

way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that. Jemima Kirke

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many. Caroline Knapp

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. William Shenstone

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. Frank Sinatra

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour. William Kingdon Clifford

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus. Johannes Kepler

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. Naguib Mahfouz

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. William Jennings Bryan

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. Markus Zusak

Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years! Sherilyn Fenn

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