Don't let us be like all the others! she protested.
Women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men.
Though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance,...
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
High PastureCome up--come up: in the dim vale belowThe autumn mist muffles the fading trees,But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breezeHas stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the snow,Night...
When ‘‘such things happened’’ it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman.
He wonders whether young women raised under such restrictive conditions can ever overcome the disadvantage of deliberately engineered lacunae in their mental, moral, and emotional development. The
He saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.
You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It's beyond human enduring--that's all.
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice?
Was it love, she wondered, or a mere fortuitous combination of happy thoughts and sensations?
To begin with, I hate these new-fangled intermediate meals. Why can't people eat enough at luncheon to last till dinner?
Though he sought simplicity, he dread dulness. Dimly conscious that he was dull himself, he craved the stimulus of a quicker mind; yet he feared a dull wife less than a brilliant one, for with the lat...
There were moments of overwhelming lassitude, when, like the victim of some poison which leaves the brain clear, but holds the body motionless, she saw herself domesticated with the Horror, accepting...
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.
The light of the October afternoon lay on an old high-roofed house which enclosed in its long expanse of brick and yellowish stone the breadth of a grassy court filled with the shadow and sound of lim...