Sublime

‘Motherhood is an obliteration of the self,’

But Dorothea herself was a little shocked and discouraged at her own stupidity, and the answers she got to some timid questions about the value of the Greek accents gave her a painful suspicion that here indeed there might be secrets not capable of explanation to a woman’s reason.

Harriet Elizabeth obviously had too little to occupy her active mind, so she was directed not only to master the abstractions of Butler’s Analogy but to teach a course on the book to girls of her own age. Harriet Elizabeth accomplished the terrifying assignment by keeping one chapter ahead of her students.

prevent the fertility, the insensibility of nature? Mrs

What we don’t know is whether the size of your brain determines how many friends you can have or whether the number of friends you have determines the size of your brain.

I ought to have told her more fully than I did, of all the things we had to be ashamed of.