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“Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me.”

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Author:Irina Ratushinskaya

“During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.”

“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”

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Book:The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

“I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.”

Girl Literature Environment Comfortable

Author:Lisa Guerrero

“When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.”

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Author:Lisa Guerrero

“Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.”

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Book:Hemingway on Fishing

Source: Hemingway on Fishing

“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”

Men Has Beens Two Used Order Girl Literature Sensible Mansfield Park

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”

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Book:8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

“Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”

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Book:Northanger abbey

Source: Northanger abbey