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Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material...

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Agnes Repplier: It is not...

Agnes Repplier: It is not...

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always...

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Doris Lilly: It's intoxicating for...

Doris Lilly: It's intoxicating for...

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get...

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Elizabeth Kenny: The American doctor...

Elizabeth Kenny: The American doctor...

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and . . . an eagerness to know what it is really all...

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Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

Source: In...

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Brigid Brophy: Whenever people say...

Brigid Brophy: Whenever people say...

Whenever people say we mustn't be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And, if they add,...

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Judith Guest: And if you...

Judith Guest: And if you...

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty,...

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Barbara Cartland: As long as...

Barbara Cartland: As long as...

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

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Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this...

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Johanna Spyri: She knows what...

Johanna Spyri: She knows what...

She knows what she sees. She has her eyes in the right place.

Source: Heidi, Ch....

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Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The obstinacy of...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The obstinacy of...

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

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George Eliot: Rome, the city...

George Eliot: Rome, the city...

Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with...

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Jane Austen: In nine cases...

Jane Austen: In nine cases...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

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Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often...

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George Eliot: Perspective, as its...

George Eliot: Perspective, as its...

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish,...

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George Eliot: Of what use,...

George Eliot: Of what use,...

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need...

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George Eliot: Would not love...

George Eliot: Would not love...

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

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George Eliot: My own experience...

George Eliot: My own experience...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree...

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