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George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Source: 'Felix...

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George Eliot: To judge wisely,...

George Eliot: To judge wisely,...

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Eliot: To manage men,...

George Eliot: To manage men,...

To manage men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: I have the...

George Eliot: I have the...

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

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George Eliot: That's what a...

George Eliot: That's what a...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...

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Jane Austen: Nobody can tell...

Jane Austen: Nobody can tell...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never...

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Jane Austen: It may be...

Jane Austen: It may be...

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many...

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Jane Austen: The little bit...

Jane Austen: The little bit...

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...

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Jane Austen: There is safety...

Jane Austen: There is safety...

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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Helen Rowland: After marriage, a...

Helen Rowland: After marriage, a...

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and...

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Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Source: Reflections...

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Helen Rowland: When a man...

Helen Rowland: When a man...

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Many a man...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Many a man...

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

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Rebecca Harding Davis: While the light...

Rebecca Harding Davis: While the light...

While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman...

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Helen Keller: Science may have...

Helen Keller: Science may have...

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of...

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Dorothy Parker: It costs me...

Dorothy Parker: It costs me...

It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
'Aha, my little dear,' I say,
'Your clan...

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Dorothy Parker: He has a...

Dorothy Parker: He has a...

He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...

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Jane Howard: Parents, however old...

Jane Howard: Parents, however old...

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As...

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Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human...

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Susan Sontag: Ours is a...

Susan Sontag: Ours is a...

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory...

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