Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.