It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.
Margaret OliphantI scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.
Margaret OliphantIt has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Margaret OliphantTerror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.
Margaret Oliphant