I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to 'em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

Always wanting another man than your own.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions, and her lack of interest in his aspirations.

Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.

An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.

If you fear the man who takes care of you, no one has ever loved you truly.

The individual cannot exist outside of the many spheres of the deeply interconnected webs of life

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.

Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.