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Cho 62: …timidity passes for folly, and gentleness for dullness, and silence, which is but timid denial of the unwelcome assertion of ruling folks, and tacit Protestantism above all finds no mercy at the hands of the female inquisition.

Chp 62:I like to dwell upon this period of her life that she was cheerful and happy, you see she has not much of that existence and has not fallen in the way of means to educate her tastes or intelligence. She has been domineered over hitherto by vulgar intellects. It is a lot of many a woman, and as every one of the dear sex is a rival of the rest of her kind timidity passes for folly in their charitable judgments.

Chp 59: Nobody had ever heard of these grieves which had been part of our poor little woman’s [Amelia Sedley] life, she kept them secret from her father, who’s improvidence was the cause of much of her misery. She had to bare all the blame of his misdoings. And indeed was so utterly gentle and humble as to be made by nature for a victim.

Chapter 56: What do men know about women’s martyrdoms? We should go mad if we had to endure the 1/100th part of those daily pains that are meekly born by so many women. Constant gentleness and kindness met by cruelty. Love, labor, patience, watchfulness, without so much as even the acknowledgment of a good word. All this how many of them have to bear in quiet and appear with cheerful faces as if they felt nothing.

Becky/Rebecca is a handful but a classic lit baddie and Amelia is so kind

Made me laugh already very descriptive