“The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is more detailed than the world.”

“Where did the men get the goldSo extraordinarilyLeaving little of me leftAnd from what men(The men that burn in my heart)I should escape. I am ashamed.If the men turn towards meWhere are the rights of my solitude?”

“Men deft men mental men of loving men all menVile men virtuous men same men from which menSweet and men of mercy men such making men saidHas each man that sees itCry as men to the men sensateConceptual recognition the menAnd their poverty speaking to the menIs about timeliness men is aboutPrevious palpability from whichThe problematic politics adorableAnd humble especiallyYoung men of sheepish privilege becomingSweet new style”

“The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.”

“What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.”

“Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.”

“How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!”