It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.