“The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.”

“Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.”

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

“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.”