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“...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“Some of the greatest criminals I have known had the faces of angels.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links

“It does not do to trust people too much.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood