Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?