A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
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Charles Dickens
Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to...
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Jennifer Donnelly
When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you...
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M.E. Thomas
Men die in battle women die in childbirth.
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Philippa Gregory
More Quotes By Ivy ComptonBurnett
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against real life. But I think there are signs that strange things...
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.
Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
