From the Bookshelf of Constant Reader…

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

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

“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.”

“We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.”

“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”

“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.”