“As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.”
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
