It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

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.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.