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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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"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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"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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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
Slavery
"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
Nature
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
Life
"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."
Time
"Death is better than slavery."
Death
"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."
Woman
"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."
Old
"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."
Family
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
God
"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."
Power
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