A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. According to the ceremony as there printed, my bridegroom chooses me of his own will and pleasure; but I don’t choose him. Somebody gives me to him, like a she-ass or she-goat, or any other domestic animal.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.