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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

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Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective…
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but…
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in,…
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs -…
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush…
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over…
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a…
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a…
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with…
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god.…

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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two… — Gregory Bateson
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's… — Alison Brie
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea… — Hal Borland
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. — Clifton Fadiman
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — Mark Twain
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the… — Anton Chekhov

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