Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many beYet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured.
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.