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"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
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"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."
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"Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness."
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"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."
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"Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over."
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"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."
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"Be independent, ad do what you will."
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"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
Behavior
"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."
Insight
"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
Independence
"I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts."
Motivation
"But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain..."
Magic
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
Empathy
"Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood - she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."
Youth
"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
Fame
"In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party."
Wellness
"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."
Romance
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