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It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
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The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
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Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.
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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
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