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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.

– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

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What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?

– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Who so loves believes the impossible.

– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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