For women in those days, the break-up of a home was often a break-up of their lives. Many a girl in the bad times passed in a year from bridehood and motherhood to the workhouse or the streets.

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

She was a well-mannered woman of perhaps thirty-five, Mr. Bruce decided, with a well-ordered house and a perfect emotional digestion-one of those women who, through their goodness, can absorb anything.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover.