"A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her."

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Source : Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.87, Lulu.com

Helen Rowland

#Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Sassy Quotes

“I donâ€™t think you can really define love”
“In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.”
“You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that's what you're gonna get!”
“It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.”
“Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.”
“Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.”
“In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.”
“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.”

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