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We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway.


Kenneth Oppel


#respect

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.


Jeannette Walls


#common-sense #fashion #nonsense #victorian-era #nature

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. [Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood]


Victor Hugo


#les-misérables #political #poverty #society #victor-hugo

Victory takes sides on people who are more compatible with nature and future.


Toba Beta


#future #nature #take-sides #victory #nature

Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.


Anthony Trollope


#victorians #nature

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.


Lois McMaster Bujold


#give #giving #nature #nature-of-things #triumph

When we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength and power to be the champion who casts the rebels down and feeds France with the sweet, nourishing milk of peace, here indeed is something quite extraordinary! For if God performed such a great number of miracles through Joshua who conquered many a place and cast down many an enemy, he, Joshua, was a strong and powerful man. But, after all, a woman – a simple shepherdess – braver than any man ever was in Rome! As far as God is concerned, this was easily accomplished. But as for us, we never heard tell of such an extraordinary marvel, for the prowess of all the great men of the past cannot be compared to this woman's whose concern it is to cast out our enemies. This is God's doing: it is He who guides her and who has given her a heart greater than that of any man.


Christine de Pizan


#empowerment #feminism #freedom #gender #joan-of-arc

Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.


Vince Lombardi Jr.


#victory #winning #sports

No, not really. But …” Okay, I couldn’t help but gloat a little. “She likes me.” Samedi didn’t even look at me. “Well of course, you’ve had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.


Lia Habel


#dystopian #fiction #lia-habel #neo-victorian #paranormal

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.


Bernie Mcgill


#historical-fiction #ireland #irish #literary-fiction #mother






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