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"Marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Charlotte M. Yonge, The Heir Of Redclyffe
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”You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
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"She would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.”
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
Margaret Oliphant, The Rector
Frances Harper, Iola Leroy
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"His remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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"What are men to rocks and mountains?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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"Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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“When a man is brilliant there is always a doubt in some minds whether he is trustworthy, or sincere, or to be relied upon; but an ordinary commonsense sort of talker is free from such suspicion.”
Margaret Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park