"Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good."

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Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.237, Broadview Press

Adah Isaacs Menken

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“In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.”
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.”
“I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.”
“Howâ€™ is always more important that â€˜what.â€™ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.”
“One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.”
“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”
“I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.”
“Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.”

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