“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”
Source: The Girls of Slender Means
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Source: Commissions and Omissions by Indian Presidents and Their Conflicts with the Prime Ministers Under the Constitution: 1977-2001, P.255.
‘Suffering and Speech’ in Catherine A MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin (eds) In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings.

Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)

“That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”
Source: One Fifth Avenue

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 11.

“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
May 8, 1781
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV