"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot
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"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.“
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
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"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."
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"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
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"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
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