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Emily Blackwell: Our school education...

Emily Blackwell: Our school education...

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

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Han Suyin: . . ....

Han Suyin: . . ....

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort...

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Judith Guest: Geez, if I...

Judith Guest: Geez, if I...

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and...

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Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the...

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George Eliot: But the mother's...

George Eliot: But the mother's...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love,...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the...

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George Eliot: The strongest principle...

George Eliot: The strongest principle...

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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George Eliot: No evil dooms...

George Eliot: No evil dooms...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Women are the real architects of society.

Source: In Atlantic Monthly, 1864.
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Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...

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P D James: Life had taught...

P D James: Life had taught...

Life had taught hm that the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

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Hannah Arendt: War has ....

Hannah Arendt: War has ....

War has . . . become a luxury which only the small nations can afford.

Source: In...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Source:...

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George Eliot: Only those who...

George Eliot: Only those who...

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene...

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George Eliot: The growing good...

George Eliot: The growing good...

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me...

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George Eliot: Great feelings will...

George Eliot: Great feelings will...

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of...

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George Eliot: There are some...

George Eliot: There are some...

There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them...

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George Eliot: There is hardly...

George Eliot: There is hardly...

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs,...

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George Eliot: That's what a...

George Eliot: That's what a...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...

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