Quote by Jane Austen
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is o

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. – Jane Austen

Other quotes by Jane Austen

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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Beauty
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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Women
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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. – Jane Austen

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Letters
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. – Barbara de Angelis

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Women

Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. – Méré

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Women

Respecting other peoples cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. Its indefensible. – Jello Biafra

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Women

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. – Karen Horney

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Women

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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