“It's lovely to see people so happy.”

“having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay”

“what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.”

“proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.”

“It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wive...”

“I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo”

“having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay”

“proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.”

“It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wive...”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”