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Ovid Poet
Valentine

"Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power."

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Anna Howard Shaw Physician, Suffragist
Valentine

"Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Valentine

"Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news."

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Tracy McMillan Author, Television Producer
Valentine

"All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized."

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Alexandre Dumas Novelist, Playwright
Valentine

"Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?"

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Alexandre Dumas Novelist, Playwright
Valentine

"There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Valentine

"The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed."

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