Biography
"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)"
"I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it."
"Reputable scholars might have denied its authenticity, but there are always other scholars who disagree--and people will believe what they want to believe, never mind the evidence. If there is anything life has taught me, it is that there is no idea so absurd that someone will not accept it as truth, and no action so bizarre that it will not be justified in the eyes of a true believer."
"I had had my night of weeping...I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose"
"My feelings are a fact, not a personal delusion. They are valid for me. What business have you got trying to tell me how I ought to feel?"