Quote by Jane Austen
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire h

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – Jane Austen

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. – Jane Austen

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. – Jane Austen

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen

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