This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

It seems to be the fashion nowadays for a girl to behave as much like a man as possible. Well, I won't! I'll make the best of being a girl and be as nice a specimen as I can: sweet and modest, a dear, dainty thing with clothes smelling all sweet and violety, a soft voice, and pretty, womanly ways. Since I'm a girl, I prefer to be a real one!