I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

The truer the facts the better the fiction.