"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
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"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
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