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"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."
Uncertainty
"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant."
Man
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
Thought
"Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile."
Honesty
"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
Being
"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons."
Woman
"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."
Travel
"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."
Self
"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"
Nation
"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."
Reading
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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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"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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