Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse …

It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate awaiting them on this earth.

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-…

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.