"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

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"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."

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Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."

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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

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"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."

Soul

"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."

Life

"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."

Nature

"Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me: but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows."

Despair

"I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated."

Ambition

"Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded-a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures."

Ethics

"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.- The Evil Eye."

Anxiety

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

Change

"She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight."

History

"Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart."

Faith