Alice Duer Miller Quotes

#1. Mother, what is a Feminist?"
"A feminist, my daughter,
Is any woman now who cares
To think about her own affairs
As men don't think she oughter.

Alice Duer Miller

#2. It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Alice Duer Miller

#3. There, little girl, don't read,
You're fond of your books, I know,
But Brother might mope
If he had no hope
Of getting ahead of you.
It's dull for a boy who cannot lead.
There, little girl, don't read.

Alice Duer Miller

#4. In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Alice Duer Miller

#5. When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said,
I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;
But if two women disagree, with very little noise,
It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.

Alice Duer Miller

#6. Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

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#7. People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.

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#8. Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

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#9. They make other nations seem pale and flighty,
But they do think England is God almighty,
And you must remind them now and then
That other countries breed other men.

Alice Duer Miller

#10. Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this ...

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#11. Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

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#12. No one really believes in equality who's on top.

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#13. Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

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#14. When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

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#15. The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

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#16. Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action ...

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#17. If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

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#18. Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger, but faces it head on

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#19. Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

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#20. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime
When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

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#21. It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

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#22. And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

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#23. Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you.

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#24. I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Alice Duer Miller