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“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”
Lord Byron
“Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature”
Petronius
“American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers”
William Somerset Maugham
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
Confucius
“Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“[He considers me] just a uterus with legs.”
Mary Beth Whitehead
“What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?”
Rita Mae Brown
“There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering”
Minna Antrim
“A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.”
W. H. Auden
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.”
Buddha
