It seemed a good idea at the time.
Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.
I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.
Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.