The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.