#herself

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. ↗

— Jane Austen

#always #cares #disengaged #done #engaged

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bring #disagree #equality #fundamentalist #herself

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#herself #honor #never #she #should

Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#beautiful #before #blue #blue eyes #could

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. ↗

— Loretta Young

#crowd #follow #herself #she #woman

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#i #idea #liked #perform #someone

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#doubt #everything #except #herself #say

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#deal #family #family history #great #great deal

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#cannot #checking #contain #enlist #everyone

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#entrusted #herself #secrets