Ah, if I could only make your dear heart ache one little minute of each day as mine does every day and all day long, it might lead you to show pity t… - Thomas Hardy

She could have never believed in the morning that her colorless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope.

"Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women… O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?" — Esdras.

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.