You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.

If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.