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I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute... best at what you do.
Oprah Winfrey Speaks (Janet Lowe, 1998)
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
The Second Sex
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself - on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Mansfield Park
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!
Persuasion
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
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