To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
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It's not a lot of work. We're looking for someone from the area to take over the weeding and some of the general maintenance.Jane Harrison
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
Jane Harrison
It's just to celebrate literacy more than anything. We want students to know that they can read for pleasure as well as to get information.
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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
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