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"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
People
"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
Trust
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
Art
"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
Power
"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."
God
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
Man
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Man
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
Discrimination
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
Experience
"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."
Will
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