Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. - George Eliot

People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. I am not a monster but I have not felt exactly what other women feel, or say they feel, for fear of being thought unlike others.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.