... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.