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Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

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If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

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When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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When a strong woman 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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I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I...more

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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it co...more

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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

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[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings...more

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Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures o...more

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Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal...more