The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least.

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.