People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.