A good woman would rather be ...

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero
A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero
 Gelett Burgess

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

Quotes from the same author

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
 Gelett Burgess
Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason
 Gelett Burgess
Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.
 Gelett Burgess
Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
 Gelett Burgess
There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.
 Gelett Burgess