the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Women are the true modelers of social order.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.