When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

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

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

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

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

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s licence to receive it.