Variant: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Source: East of Eden
“I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.”
From a letter to Harold Preece (c. January or February 1928)
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