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However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon....more

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It is much more important to be oneself than anything else.

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My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which...more

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Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives, is threatening mere waste of energy, even some co...more

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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even...more

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Then came the most exquisite moment of her whole life passing a stone urn with flowers in it. Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips. ...more

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to look down at the moment, started so vio...more

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means sig...more

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The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the ...more

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No guinea of earned money should go to rebuilding the college on the old plan just as certainly none could be spent upon building a college upon a new...more

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But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

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There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own o...more