Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle.

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, ‘To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

I’d three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.

It’s human; we all put self interest first.

In childbirth grief begins.

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live – and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Who can stop grief’s avalanche once it starts to roll.

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come