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"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."
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"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."

"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"

"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."

"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."

"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."

"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."

"I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson."

"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."

"Never let a day be your control factor."

"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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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."


"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
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