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“Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.”

Thinking Firsts Long Life Is Women Please Aim Gender Educated Sincere Never Expect

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.”

Thinking Men Feels Long Has Beens Stills Women Numbers Slave Prepared Coward

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

“When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.”

Long Remember Women Balance Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.”

Long Stills Women Powerful Support Enlightenment Competition Pursuit Selling Buying Commodity Sisterhood Powerful Women Buying And Selling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.”

Kind Long Has Beens Together Grows Women Greater Team Keys Couple Long Time Tough Unions Tragic Staying Mature Team Work Greater Good Staying Together

Author:Amy Dickinson

“In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.”

Long Self Grows Women Views Satisfaction Instant Void Self Actualization Actualization Fill The Void Satisfaction In Life

Author:Amy Dickinson

“Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.”

Long Lost Women Enemy Perspective Lost Love

Author:Amy Dickinson

“This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.”

Way Long Together Women Situation Solutions Tough Patient Calm Gentle Resolve Knitting It Is What It Is Stay Calm Tough Situations

Author:Amy Dickinson

“A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes, Sweet bath, suavely Scented with ointments, has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.”

Men Kind Long Hands Women Hair Genius Clothes Perfection Skins Remains Artistic Atmosphere Knees Tone Scent Bosoms Incomplete Refinement Delicacy Androgyny

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.”

Men Long Lost Women Interest Opinion Hair Reasonable

Author:Austin O'Malley

“As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beautifully ordered by Providence that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity, winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.”

Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)

“I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.”

Heart Long Stills Body Joy Asks Names Lost Sound Women Dark Becoming Bed Breaths Deeper Far Away Deep Inside Hunted Avalanches Becoming Something Long Deep

Book:Refusing Heaven

Source: Refusing Heaven

“I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.”

Trying Long Enough Given Women Mystery Roots Mere Squares Quantity Introduction Given Up Square Roots

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.”

Littles Long Done Girl Women Hair Skirts Long Skirts

Book:Buttered Side Down

Source: Buttered Side Down