Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. – Samuel Richardson
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal. – Samuel Richardson
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. – Samuel Richardson
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. – Jon Meacham