Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

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.

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.