“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“ A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”

“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.”

“Our reactions reflect our repentance. Our practices reveal our priorities. Changed lives change lives.”

“He’s lived the life he’s lived. He’s loved the woman he’s loved. No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on this earth, and that’s all right by him.”

“I am not one of your repentant sinners, Kenneth. I have lived my life—God, what a life!—and as I have lived I shall die, unflinching and unchanged. Dare one to presume that a few hours spent in whining prayers shall atone for years of reckless dissoluteness? 'Tis a doctrine of cravens, who, having lacked in life the strength to live as conscience bade them, lack in death the courage to stand by that life's deeds. I am no such traitor to myself.”