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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

— Christopher Morley

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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

The Haunted Bookshop (1919)

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Travels in Philadelphia (1920)

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Thunder on the Left (1925)

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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