A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.

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

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.

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.