But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

Liberty must not be abused.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?