Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes

• Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

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  Clever, Good Woman, Clever Woman

  Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.237, Broadview Press

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• There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

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  Spring, Grief, Flower

  Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72

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• Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.

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  Life, Lying, And Love

  Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia”, p.71

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• There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

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  Work, Men, Genius

  Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press

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