I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Quote by George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of...

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because...

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because...

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.