Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.