Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love … - Eleanor Farjeon

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Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

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About Eleanor Farjeon

Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.

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Pen Names: Tomfool
Alternative Names: Merry Andrew Chimaera
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