“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”

“Every woman is a rebel.”

“A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.”

“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”

“A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel,because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber.”

“Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.”