If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. . . why should you be frightened'
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. . . why should you be frightened'
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
The Inevitability of Gradualness.
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