The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
- Freya Stark
Stupid, Woman, Always, Surprised
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
- Freya Stark
Art, Other, Like, Dose
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
- Freya Stark
Strong, Sail, Hands, Steadily
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
- Freya Stark
Christmas, Carries, Piece, External
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
- Freya Stark
Soul, Race, Feel, Giants
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
- Freya Stark
Pain, Makes, Which, Hunger
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
- Freya Stark
Alone, World, Sensations, Awaken
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
- Freya Stark
Nature, Curiosity, One Thing, Invincible
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