Women are not as sentimental ...

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
 Charles Dudley Warner

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
 Harriet Tubman
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Quotes from the same author

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
 Charles Dudley Warner
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
 Charles Dudley Warner
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
 Charles Dudley Warner
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
 Charles Dudley Warner
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.
 Charles Dudley Warner