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Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems or...more

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You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn...more

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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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--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phil...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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He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to th...more

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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