Jane Austen - Woman Quotes

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

Jane Austen

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

I suppose all the world is sitting in judgement upon the Princess of Wales's letter. Poor woman, I shall support her as long as I can, because she is a woman and because I hate her husband.

Jane Austen

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Jane Austen