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Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

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you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she en...more

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I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

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I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. Accor...more

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An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

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Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts whi...more