I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling
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The emerging woman.. Will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied.. Strength and beauty must go together.
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
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Proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
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Men never forgive like women.
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On some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters love their duty and do it so well, or you would perish off the face of the earth,' said Mrs. Jo solemnly
I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo
Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
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Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.
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