Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.