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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in read more
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a read more
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the read more
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in read more
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be read more
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
