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Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...

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Rita Mae Brown: Don't ask to...

Rita Mae Brown: Don't ask to...

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Source:...

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George Eliot: You may try...

George Eliot: You may try...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of...

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George Eliot: An ass may...

George Eliot: An ass may...

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Source: Romola, ch....

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George Eliot: It's them as...

George Eliot: It's them as...

It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

Source: Mrs. Poyser,...

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Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Source: Pride & Prejudice/...

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Jane Austen: She was nothing...

Jane Austen: She was nothing...

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

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George Eliot: The sense of...

George Eliot: The sense of...

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active...

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Annie Dillard: There is a...

Annie Dillard: There is a...

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the...

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Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Source: The Practical Cogitator,...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: I am speaking...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: I am speaking...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own...

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Erma Bombeck: Women are never...

Erma Bombeck: Women are never...

Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift...

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Susan Sontag: Existence is no...

Susan Sontag: Existence is no...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and...

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Susan Sontag: The love of...

Susan Sontag: The love of...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...

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Andrea Dworkin: No phallic hero,...

Andrea Dworkin: No phallic hero,...

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary,...

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Katharine Hepburn: Trying to be...

Katharine Hepburn: Trying to be...

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Source: The Dick Cavett...

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Shirley Temple Black: One has to...

Shirley Temple Black: One has to...

One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally...

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Emily Dickinson: We must be...

Emily Dickinson: We must be...

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Source: Letter, 1874; in...

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