Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.