"Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much."

“If we're living in a free country,we should be free to do what we want to do if we're not hurting anyone else or their property. Why should I be incarcerated if I'm doing something that doesn't hurt anyone else?”

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

“I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.”

“Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.”

“I am a Roman citizen.”

“Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.”

Source : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.89, Taylor & Francis

“If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.”

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.”