Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.
George EliotWomen should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
George Eliot... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
George EliotIt so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
George Eliot