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"The frozen ocean... of Boston life."
Life
"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."
Needs
"Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions."
Woman
"I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends."
Integrity
"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."
Religion
"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy."
People
"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past."
Happiness
"The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community."
Community
"I take refuge in my books."
Books
"Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession."
Balance
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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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Personal Development
"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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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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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
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