“For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.”
“She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.”
“Hers was not love lost; it was love denied.”
“Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.”
“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.”
“compliments were like a beverage she was unconsciously smart enough to deny herself even one drop of, because her thirst for them was infinite.”