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“Now that is the worst idea I believe ye’ve ever had. Women don’t let this sort of thing settle. For them, it simmers.”
“Rejoice in every aspect of life—big or small. Let nothing pass you by. Appreciate everything—whether it is perceived as good or bad. You have the power to turn any experience into a pleasurable one. Challenge your preconceptions and luxuriate in the simple things of life.”
― Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris
― Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris
“People need to quit trusting in themselves and their religion and start trusting in Jesus.”
― How to Study the Bible
― How to Study the Bible
“I was doing the wrong of never wanting or trying to better. And now I see that I have been letting things go as the would for a long time. Whatever came into my head I did and whatever didn’t come into my head I didn’t do.”
― The Princess and Curdie
― The Princess and Curdie
“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
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