"Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned."

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Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned in peace to the necessity; Calm as a voyager to some distant land, And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley