“If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.”

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”

“If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?”

“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.”

“Sometimes I think life would be so much easier if we didn’t have to think about being boys or girls or men or women or old or young, fat or thin… if we could all just be certain we were the same. We might be bored, but the danger of life and of living would be gone.”

“Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie”