"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain."

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"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain."

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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."

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"The beginning is always today."

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"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

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"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

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"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."

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"Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense."

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"Virtue can only flourish among equals."

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"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."

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"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."

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"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"

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