Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

A great social reformer.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.