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- Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made…
- In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but…
- People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
- Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional…
- Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of…
- To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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