We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.

[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England