And, as I traveled farther and farther, exploring the rich, sweet soul of her, my sense of pleasant friendship became but a broad foundation for such height, such breadth, such interlocked combination of feeling as left me fairly blinded with the wonder of it.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women’s names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

It is not for nothing that a man’s best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

Nowhere else in the whole range of life on earth, is this degradation found – the female capering and prancing before the male. It is absolutely and essentially his function, not hers.

He says no one but myself can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me.

We seemed to think that if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women – why, they would be no obstacles at all. Jeff, with his gentle romantic old-fashioned notions of women as clinging vines. Terry, with his clear decided practical theories that there were two kinds of women – those he wanted and those he didn’t; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation. The latter as a large class, but negligible – he had never thought about them at all.

There are many who think in one syllable, who say, ’women don’t dress to please men – they dress to please themselves – and to outshine other women.

The difference is great between one’s outside “life,” the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one’s “living.”

Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.

The best proof of man’s dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.