The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.
George EliotYou may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George EliotLife is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
George EliotBetter spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
George Eliot