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“People are unique but feelings are not unique. They can batter us all at once like a torrential emotional storm – the good, the bad and the corrosive.”
― Emilie McMeekan, I’m Absolutely Fine!: A Manual for Imperfect Women

“Bad timing can stay bad for a long time.”
― Emura, W Juliet, Vol. 2

“We all face difficulties and obstacles. It is a fact of life. It is the way in which we respond to these events that is important. Do we confront them, or do we try to hide from them?”
― Steven Bright, In Focus Tarot: Your Personal Guide

“Fortitude was always to be one of the great virtues for Jane Austen.”
― Jane Aiken Hodge, Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen

“Man must work, she might well have said, and woman must not weep.”
― Jane Aiken Hodge, Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen

“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
― Georgette Heyer, Powder and Patch

“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.”
― Jane Austen

“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Laughter isn't the best medicine. Feeling that you're in safe hands is.”
― Ben MacFarlane, Holiday SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Travelling Doctor

“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

“I can always forgive where I understand.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“It is not always easy, for a woman alone.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“It is so important to think for yourself.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“Country picnics always sound nicer than they are. I think we should just have the idea of them, and be pleased with it, and then not go. The only true pleasures are indoors, artificial, and untainted with healthiness.”
― Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman

“A balance, I think, is needed , " Dr. Templeton said judiciously,"between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.”
― Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman

“I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right man, no doubt I should eat my words with a ready appetite. The simple fact is, I have never seen him yet, and at the age of thirty, reason inclines me rather to conclude that he does not exist, than to persist in the belief that he is still somewhere to be found”
― Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman

“How odd that we always exclaim over children growing, as if in the ordinary run of things they shrink”
― Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman