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“Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.”

Ifs Women Pleasure Sun Flower Duty Development Calling Female Rose Enjoyed Charm Retirement Shade Sensibility Showers Fragrance Domestic Life

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.”

Women Talking Duty Regard Raises Delight Appearance Storm Captured

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.”

People Want Women Duty Absolutes Devotion Severe Clergy Devotion To Duty

Author:Madame de Stael

“It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.”

Real Women Moral Duty Real Life Gentleman Dictator Quarrels

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.”

“The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.”

Knows Women Realizing Duty

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.”

Men Needs Women Quality Duty Majority Motherhood

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”

World Children Women Challenges Interesting Duty Parenting Profession Honorable Being A Parent Mothering Child Rearing Great Parenting Inspirational Parents Rearing A Child

Author:Rose Kennedy

“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”

Ifs Men Father Literature Women Wife Duty Citizens Words Of Wisdom Husband Creatures Rational Neglect Good Wife Vindication Husband And Father

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects