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“Divorce can leave children feeling like defectors.”
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“Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.”
Source : "Who is Dora Black?". Equal Rights Magazine, June 5, 1926.
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“It's been kind of hard, I'm labeled as a jerk right now, you know what I mean? But I love it. I've been a jerk all my life. My momma loves this jerk. My kids love this jerk. I'm going to be a jerk in a good way, though. I'm going to be a jerk to the other teams and just go out there and play basketball. I can do that.”
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“What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think anything about it," Malchus said; "I saw you pushed in and followed without thinking at all." Although they imperfectly understood each other's words the meaning was clear; the girl put her hand on his shoulder and looked frankly up in his face. "I thank you," she said, "just the same as if you had saved my life. You meant to do so, and it was very good of you, a great chief of this army, to hazard your life for a Gaulish maiden. Clotilde will never forget.”
Source : G. A. Henty (2016). “The Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of Hannibal”, p.213, The Floating Press
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“You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.”
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“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”
Source : Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton
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“But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.”
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“When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.”
