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Samuel Richardson on Women

1689–1761 England

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The pen is almost as pretty an implement in a woman's fingers, as a needle.

The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson with Lady Bradshaigh (1804)

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

Such a plot must have a woman in it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Richardson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.