Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 25297.
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A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
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A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
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A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
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A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
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A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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