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People are smarter than you might think. ↗

— John Astin

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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. ↗

— Nancy Astor

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Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ↗

— Mary Astor

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Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc. ↗

— Thomas Spence

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For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. ↗

— Mary Astell

#because #love #makes #marry #mighty

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. ↗

— Nancy Astor

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A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best. ↗

— Mary Astell

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