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My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.


Margaret Cavendish

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MARGARET MEAD Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
MARGARET ATWOOD Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve...
MARGARET ATWOOD I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...
MARGARET ATWOOD I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic...
MARGARET ATWOOD That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
MARGARET ATWOOD Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.
Aunt Grace leaned closer to the boar...
MARGARET STOHL We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...
MARGARET ATWOOD Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...
MARGARET ATWOOD The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual...
MARGARET MITCHELL Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ...
MARGARET MEAD To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
MARGARET OLIPHANT The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHER Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHER Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
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