(The other side shall be heard as well.)
I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.
Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.
It's human; we all put self interest first.
Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Old loves are dropped when new ones come
Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.
Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.
For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?
Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
