"A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness."

Gender, Woman, Strength, Weakness, Power

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"A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness."

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"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."

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"Women are binding and men are commanding."

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"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!"

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"What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."

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"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."

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"Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories."

Knowledge

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."

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"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

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"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

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"You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel."

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"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character."

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"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."

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