Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ”Woman’s Rights” with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex...

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God’s will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have...

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to...

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others; don’t (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in...

I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

A strange, horrible business, but I suppose good enough for Shakespeare’s day.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so...

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow...

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

Everybody grows but me.

The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind’s appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming...

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world — so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you,...

I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more...

The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Woman’s Rights’, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble...

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live...