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In childbirth grief begins.

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Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

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Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

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Old loves are dropped when new ones come

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Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

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Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

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I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.