Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer, and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.
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ARISTOTLE This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suff... ARISTOTLE This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suf... ARISTOTLE This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suff... ARISTOTLE "Patriotic families do more than fly our country's flag and vote. They pray for the brave men and wo... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obvio... LAUREN BACALL Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still posse... VIRGINIA WOOLF Factors influencing the ability to (reach) orgasm vary from woman to woman. What we do know is that ... DR. VIRGINIA SADOCK I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do.... 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ANTHONY TROLLOPE You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop... DALAI LAMA XIV As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing busin... GROVER NORQUIST I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better... ANITA HILL If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures' or ‘losers'. Of c... NEEL BURTON Because women tend to turn their anger inward and blame themselves, they tend to become depressed an... BEVERLY ENGEL There certainly are some women who treat their male partners badly, berating them, calling them name... LUNDY BANCROFT The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach the... 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CRAIG GROESCHEL Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would up... MARGARET ATWOOD Some dudes just know what they know, and they are fine with it. They might obsess with sex as much a... ROBERTO HOGUE Women can hire a domestic helper to help them with their daily chores or child-rearing but some wome... CINDY CHU Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of th... SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the re... JASPER FFORDE God expects from men something more than at such times, and that
it were much to be wished for the ... BISHOP ROBERT SOUTH God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the c... ROBERT SOUTH In the last two years, men have gotten more involved in familial health. While women continue to gen... LINDA GILBERT Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why m... THOMAS S. SZASZ Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me... Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me... THOMAS S. SZASZ Most people believe that their listening skills are where they need to be, even though they aren'... TRAVIS BRADBERRY I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY They were living to themselves: self, with its hopes, and promises, and dreams, still had hold of th... ELIZABETH PAYSON PRENTISS Superstitious persons, who know better how to rail at vice than how to teach virtue, and who strive ... BARUCH SPINOZA Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign... SAMUEL JOHNSON More than men, women are enthusiastic online communicators, and they use e-mail in a more robust way... DEBORAH FALLOWS Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignora... SAMUEL JOHNSON I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them parti... THOMAS HARDY To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown ... DEBORAH TANNEN She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for thei... SHERYL SANDBERG We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections... GEORGE ELIOT Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women. VIDYA BALAN Too often people look at the disability only and are quick to diagnose someone or try and figure out... MATT BROOKS I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and beg... M. AGEYEV India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious ... ABHIJIT NASKAR In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men ... WALTER LIPPMANN Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, inc... MARGARET MEAD Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequ... GEOFF HOON Sex is metaphysical for men, as it is not for women. Women have no problem to solve through sex. Phy... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA They are taught to be in a pleasant place ... to fill their lungs as much as they can and exhale ver... HOWARD PAYTON become as much a part of their books as do the readers, and they escape into the worlds they have cr... ROBERT VAUGHAN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than no... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH That's why actors can take on other lives, because I think basically, at the bottom of everything, t... ANJELICA HUSTON Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD They just have to log minutes. As good a player as Tommie is, as good a player as Kevin is, they jus... BRAD SODERBERG Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge ... AMELIA EARHART Certain it is that work, worry, labor and trouble, form the lot of almost all men their whole life l... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The reason a lot of women can't move on from a relationship or people they love is because they need... SHANNON L. ALDER We get more and more consultations like this. Women are becoming more independent. When their husban... ATSUKO OKANO Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by ... JOHN STUART MILL If they sold their house today, they would still get more money than they paid for it. But they won'... AMY CUTTS My suspicion is that women are paying more attention to their health and are working on it. Men tend... JAMES CASEY It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, t... ERNEST HEMINGWAY is a broken man an outlaw?" "More or less." Brienne answered. Septon Meribald ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Defensively we're fine, but we still have to work on our finishing. As well as Eric and Russ are sco... BO WILLIAMS Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ... WENDELL BERRY Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in th... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. ... JOHN SERGEANT WISE
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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge... CHARLOTTE BRONTë No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w... 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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. CHARLOTTE BRONTë We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the gr... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be... 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There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th... CHARLOTTE BRONTë At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o... CHARLOTTE BRONTë An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her... CHARLOTTE BRONTë But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus CHARLOTTE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of t... CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sea... CHARLOTTE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m... 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CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a simil... CHARLOTTE BRONTë (...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me wh... CHARLOTTE BRONTë He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I be... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have a strange feeling with regard to you. 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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here. CHARLOTTE BRONTë But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there... CHARLOTTE BRONTë That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idio... CHARLOTTE BRONTë But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience? CHARLOTTE BRONTë His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am a free human being with an independent will." Jane Eyre CHARLOTTE BRONTë You transfix me quite. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. 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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would take a great deal to crush me CHARLOTTE BRONTë The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upw... CHARLOTTE BRONTë When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t... CHARLOTTE BRONTë You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale... CHARLOTTE BRONTë He that is low need fear no fall. CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc... CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit... CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . still we are none of us perfect . . . CHARLOTTE BRONTë I gave, at first, attention close; Then interest warm ensued; From interest, as improvem... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos CHARLOTTE BRONTë Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser CHARLOTTE BRONTë It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things. CHARLOTTE BRONTë -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is... CHARLOTTE BRONTë A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth CHARLOTTE BRONTë I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer CHARLOTTE BRONTë I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t... CHARLOTTE BRONTë No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps. CHARLOTTE BRONTë That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur... CHARLOTTE BRONTë In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt... CHARLOTTE BRONTë He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw. CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s... CHARLOTTE BRONTë A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du... CHARLOTTE BRONTë And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error.... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a... CHARLOTTE BRONTë All men must die. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are human and fallible. CHARLOTTE BRONTë