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Women's Voices: Quotations by Women
Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis
Quotation: Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. 
Quotation: Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!  
Quotation: It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn. (Frankenstein) 
Quotation: You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. (Frankenstein)
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