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17d61bf | "There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated." | expectations gender honesty independence influence integrity love marriage matrimony propriety respect self-determination self-respect uprightness women | Charlotte Brontë | |
c69914f | Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency. | priorities self-control self-improvement uprightness | William Shakespeare |