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Here are some wise and witty thoughts about women, men and society...from a woman's perspective. Can you identify where these quotes come from?

1) 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Katherine Mansfield, In a German Pension

Collette, Cheri

2) 'I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created.'
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Ellen Glasgow, Virginia

Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

3) 'A man is so in the way in the house.'
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris

Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

4) 'My soul an't yours Mas'r. You haven't bought it - ye can't buy it. It's been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.'
Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent

Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

5) 'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.'
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

6) 'Reader, I married him.'
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Willa Cather, Song of the Lark

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons

7) 'What in the name of all that feels has he to do with books when I am dying?'
George Eliot, Silas Marner

Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

8) There are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.'
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

Willa Cather, O Pioneers

Charlotte Bronte, The Professor

9) Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within her and about her.'
Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Other Stories

Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

Colette, Chance Acquaintances

Daphne Rooke, Mittee

10) '...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.'
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

George Eliot, Middlemarch

George Sand, Lettres d'un Voyageur

Jean Rhys, Letters 1931-1966

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