"Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time."

"All marriage is such a lottery - the happiness is always an exchange - though it may be a very happy one - still the poor woman is bodily and morally the husband's slave. That always sticks in my throat. When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."

"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."

"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife."

"His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

"I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of “Women’s Rights,” with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection."

"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."

"I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all."

"I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice."

"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."

"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."

"It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved."

"It seems to me a defect in our much famed Constitution, to have to part with an admirable Govt like Ld Salisbury's for no question of any importance or any particular reason, merely on account of the number of votes."

"Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country."

"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them."

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."

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