Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

I married beneath me. All women do.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.