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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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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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Personal Development

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"I shall not grow conservative with age."
Age

"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
Courage

"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading."
Woman

"To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes."
Education

"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."
Humanity

"To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages."
Creativity

"Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement."
Sex

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."
Life

"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."
Law

"I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse."
Thought
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