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title: "3 Female Virtue Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette/saddest-of-all-are-the-women-who-were-brought-up-to-believe-that-self/)

[Jeanette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette/)

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> [A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-proper-wife-should-be-as-obedient-as-a-slave-the-female-is-a-female/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [“As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-kipnis/as-if-all-that-weren-t-enough-factor-in-the-whole-tedious-millenial/)

[Laura Kipnis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-kipnis/)

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