Quote by Mary Wesley
Womens courage is rather different from mens. The fact that women

Womens courage is rather different from mens. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. – Mary Wesley

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People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. – Mary Wesley

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Were all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. – Mary Wesley

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That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they dont understand. – Mary Wesley

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If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? – Marvin Kitman

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To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. – Janeane Garofalo

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Hes nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of ones nastiness does not make one nice. – Michael Kinsley

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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. – John Stuart Mill

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