"There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm."

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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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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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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."

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

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"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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"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light."

"I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up."

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"My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't."

"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."