life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.