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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar. ' Then I realise. . . It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

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Harriet Martineau

if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society.

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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

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Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

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It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

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