Posted by: Eleonora La Pazza
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If you were born with the weakness to fall
you were born with the strength to rise.
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If you were born with the weakness to fall
you were born with the strength to rise.
Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.
Contending for the rights of women, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge, for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
Since the ladies have been left out of all meetings except parties of play, our conversation hath degenerated.
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting.
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little, if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.