No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.
Jude Morgan
You have made him live.
relationships living
When you are in love- everything is romantic
romance
I will do what I can
strength
women society
But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.
women discontent
Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats
women
Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.
choices humans
Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion
emotions society
Imagination shrinks from the consequences.
imagination fantasy
It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong
feelings
So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far away. Bearing up, then, must be this: the feeling of perfect frozen stillness, so that to raise your hand was a wrenching and unnatural event. It was not being able to sleep or eat, and the small placid tone in which she heard herself decline the food. It was the presentiment that there must be a crack or a hole somewhere at hand down which she was to throw and extinguish herself, since there must surely be something to make this bearable.
grief
Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.
funny humor hate
I have striven never to betray myself
honesty betrayal
A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
marriage
To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.
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