A Sheaf of Quotations
By Mme. Necker
Woman’s tongue is her sword which she never lets rust.
By Marguerite de Valois
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
By Mme. de Sonza
It is vanity that renders the youth of women culpable and their old age ridiculous.
By Mdlle. de Lespinasse
A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear.
Mme. Fee
Do not take women from the bedside of those who suffer; it is their post of honor.
By Eugenie de Guerin
A mother’s tenderness and caresses are the milk of the heart.
By Margaret Deland
The best things of our nature fashion themselves in silence.
By Edith Wharton
Life’s just a perpetual piecing together.
By Agnes H. Downing
(In “The Progressive Woman.”)
The woman is censured with the idea of protecting morality. And the man is let go; why? Nobody knows why. Because he is a man and no one ever thought of punishing a man for a little thing like that.... Would you avoid tragedies? Then advocate sex-equality. We will always have individual and social tragedy so long as the woman is stoned and the man goes free.