"Women can resist a man's love, a man's game, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's lounge when he knows how to talk to them".
"No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace — they drag us away from our parents' love and our sister's friendship — they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in a return?"
"But, ah me! Where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes falling and falling back ? Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love ? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed — but what does our experience say in answer to books?"