I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.