"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot
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"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.“
-George Eliot
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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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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
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