You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Quote by George Eliot

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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be...

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be...

I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.

I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

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

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

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

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

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either...

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.