One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

Emma

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Gender relations Men and women

Speaker

Emma Woodhouse

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Emma

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1816 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1816, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 9.

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Forgiveness
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Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1813 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 15.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 15.

Another quote from the 1810s

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the Lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I Love not Man the Less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Spending time in nature Nature Solitude

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Lord Byron
Source
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1818 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 4, st. 178.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 4, st. 178.

Another quote about Men and women

It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Adkins v. Children's Hospital

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Women's equality Men and women

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Source
Adkins v. Children's Hospital
Medium
Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1923 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Adkins v. Children's Hospital. United States Reports, vol. 261, 9 Apr. 1923, pp. 567-571. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/250/616/.