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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol read more
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand read more
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a read more
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the read more
There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.