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“An accomplished woman almost always knows more than we men, though her knowledge is of a different sort. I am sure you could teach me a thousand things—as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them.
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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen's Letters
― Jane Austen's Letters
“Superpowers or not, a person should be allowed to be simply happy, without feeling like they need to strip off their skin.”
― The Girl Who Would Be King
― The Girl Who Would Be King
“In addition to having a small gape, our mouths have a relatively small volume—about the same size as chimpanzee mouths, even though we weigh some 50 percent more than they do. Zoologists often try to capture the essence of our species with such phrases as the naked, bipedal, or big-brained ape. They could equally well call us the small-mouthed ape.”
― Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
― Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
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“Women in these societies often dislike marriage specifically because as wives they are obliged to produce food for men, and they have to work harder than they would as unmarried women.”
― Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
― Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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