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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Without that power probably the earth would still be swamp and jungle. The glories of all our wars would be unknown....Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
— Nov 27, 2014 10:55AM
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Shannon
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Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
— Nov 30, 2014 11:48AM
Shannon
is on page 85 of 132
The portrait of Rochester is drawn in the dark. We feel the influence of fear in it; just as we constantly feel an acidity which is the result of oppression, a buried suffering smouldering beneath her passion, a rancour which contracts those books, splendid as they are, with a spasm of pain.
— Nov 29, 2014 02:58PM
Shannon
is on page 47 of 132
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation, I thought, opening the door.
— Nov 27, 2014 11:12AM
Shannon
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Strolling through those colleges past those ancient halls the roughness of the present seemed smoothed away; the body seemed contained in a miraculous glass cabinet through which no sound could penetrate, and the mind, freed from any contact with facts (unless one trespassed on the turf again), was at liberty to settle down upon whatever meditation was in harmony with the moment.
— Nov 25, 2014 06:12AM
Shannon
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On the further bank the willows wept in perpetual lamentation, their hair about their shoulders.
— Nov 25, 2014 06:02AM
