It is little men know of women; their smiles and t... -Amelia Barr

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It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr , Novelist
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Amelia Barr was an English-American novelist who wrote historical fiction. Her works often depicted life in early America and explored themes of women's independence and social change. Barr's novels, including "Remember the Alamo" and "A Border Shepherdess," have contributed to the literary landscape of the 19th century.

Amelia Barr Quotes to Explore

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem....
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vaguen...
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous....
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it....
Old age is the verdict of life....
With renunciation life begins....
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much....
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome....
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes....
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves....

Women Quotes to Explore

Being a rapper as a woman is not a good thing in Afghanistan. I kind of put my life in danger whenever I go somewhere to talk about women's rights or ...
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women receiv...
May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for ...
The women's movement in Korea is a Juche-oriented movement, which was pioneered by the great Comrade Kim Il Sung and which followed the proud road of ...
There are any number of reasons many talented people, particularly women, leave their careers for a period of time....
After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a m...
I regard other women as my community, not my competition....
We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opp...
I think older women still have a full life....
I love empowering women. I think it's crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you're playing yourself - I ride with whoever rides with me....