More quotes by Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."
"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."