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George Eliot on Women

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“Her lot is made for her by the love she accepts.”
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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
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“Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.”
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“Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make.”
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“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
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