...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

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

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.

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.

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.

O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.

You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her friend.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

“I think the degree of a nation’s civilization may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.”

“The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.”

“I think every woman should have a blowtorch.”

“The woman’s mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.”

“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”