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"You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try."
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"The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?"
"I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class."
"If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back."
"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."
"Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action."
"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not."
"New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions."
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