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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

— Henry James The Tragic Muse (1890)

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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Hawthorne (1879)

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

Theatricals: Second Series (1895)

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The Ambassadors (1903)

She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.

The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

The Ambassadors (1903)

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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