Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.