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“There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.”

Men Mind Children Doe Made War States Girl Fronts Danger Circumstances Forgotten Painful Campaigns Planning Calamity Serene Agitation Unmarried Entourage

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.”

Way May Littles Dream Body Certain Girl Morning Circumstances Terrible Wake Up Beaten Invasion

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of - but in most ways Im a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish Celebrate.”

Way Trying Has Beens Sometimes Dream Seems Girl Opportunity Chance Careers Strange Circumstances Celebrate Attractive Typical Publish

Author:Pippa Middleton

“She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.”

Source: The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon

“You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.”

Girl Speak Circumstances Green Hamlet And Ophelia Ophelia Hamlet Ophelia Polonius

Author:William Shakespeare