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Melanie’s Quotes

“Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: humor, i-capture-the-castle

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“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.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women

1247 likes

“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

147 likes

“I'm not to blame, Ramborg, if a man's heart is created in such a fashion that whatever is inscribed on it when it's young and fresh is carved deeper than all the runes that are later etched.”
― Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter

tags: thoughts-heart-young

8 likes

“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: independence, intelligence, irritability, marriage, matrimony, recklessness

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