"A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant."

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I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

— Ernestine Rose