Eliza Bisbee Duffey quotes
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“It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.”
-- Eliza Bisbee DuffeySource : Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1873). “What Women Should Know: A Woman's Book about Women, Containing Practical Information for Wives and Mothers”, p.165
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“A beautiful eyelash is an important adjunct to the eye. The lashes may be lengthened by trimming them occasionally in childhood. Care should be taken that this trimming is done neatly and evenly, and especially that the points of the scissors do not penetrate the eye.”
-- Eliza Bisbee DuffeySource : Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1877). “The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Etiquette: A Complete Manual of the Manners and Dress of American Society. Containing Forms of Letters, Invitations, Acceptances and Regrets. With a Copious Index”
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Source : "The Case for Contraception" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.
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“The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.”
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“Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.”
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“I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him.”
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“Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.”
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“Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.”
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“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”