inner woman

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But the new exhibit, “Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words,” shows, among other things, the inner woman, marked by the plight of African Americans from an early age, determined to fight, yet buffeted by events and isolated by her fame.

From Washington Post

Thus and thus only, he had decided, could light be shed upon the mysterious twilight veiling the inner woman!

From Project Gutenberg

She saw it, because from her long trial she had brought a three-edged spirit, tempered and polished by the fires of many afflictions; and an Inner Woman perfect—no member wanting, none sick or disabled, an Inner Woman full-grown, ready for any emergency, with time for everything human.

From Project Gutenberg

The Inner Woman had control, and she had quite resigned herself to its leading.

From Project Gutenberg

"I have been weak," she whispered to her Inner Woman, and that truthful monitor replied: "To be weak is to be wicked."

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