the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.