All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.

The happiest days are when babies come.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!