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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Diane Von Furstenberg
    “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
    ― Diane Von Furstenberg
    tags: friendship, life, self-love, women
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    Jane Austen
    “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: knowledge, women
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    Robert Jordan
    “The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set
    tags: women
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    Madeleine K. Albright
    “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

    (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
    ― Madeleine Albright
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women
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    Jane Austen
    “She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: funny, good-and-bad, humor, humour, life, life-and-living, woman, woman-s-character, womanhood, women
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
    tags: love, men, women
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    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.”
    ― Yves Saint Laurent
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    Jarod Kintz
    “She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I’d like to make love to. 
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    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    Oscar Wilde
    “As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: fighting, hurt, inner-peace, peace, permission, strength, trial
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    Lilith Saintcrow
    “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
    ― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
    tags: girls, inspirational, pretty, strength, women
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    David Mitchell
    “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Joseph Heller
    “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Francesco Petrarca
    “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
    ― Francesco Petrarca
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    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
    tags: arts, life, music, poetry
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    ― Hal Borland
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    tags: courage, happiness, work
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier
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