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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: I'm proof against...

George Eliot: I'm proof against...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving...

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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: Life is too...

George Eliot: Life is too...

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...

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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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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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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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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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Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Find me the men on earth who care
Enough for faith or creed today
To seek a barren wilderness
For simple...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep.
Will never find the ready hour to sow.


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Rita Mae Brown: Creativity comes from...

Rita Mae Brown: Creativity comes from...

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

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Susan Sontag: For those who...

Susan Sontag: For those who...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as...

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Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...

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Susan Sontag: Industrial societies turn...

Susan Sontag: Industrial societies turn...

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution....

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Susan B Anthony: Woman must not...

Susan B Anthony: Woman must not...

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

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Helen Keller: It gives me...

Helen Keller: It gives me...

It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are...

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Helen Keller: No matter how...

Helen Keller: No matter how...

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable...

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Helen Rowland: Why does a...

Helen Rowland: Why does a...

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her --when, nine times out of...

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Helen Rowland: The follies which...

Helen Rowland: The follies which...

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the...

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