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Quote by Joseph Conrad
As to honor - you know - its a very fine mediaeval inheritance whi

As to honor – you know – its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. – Joseph Conrad

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. – Joseph Conrad

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Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog. – Caroline K. Simon

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The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. – Simone de Beauvoir

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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. – Bela Lugosi

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