A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.