I had had my night of weeping... I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose

Elizabeth Peters
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  1. I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
  2. I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
  3. Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history, " but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid...
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  5. Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9)
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