"A woman is bodily and morally the husband's slave."

"The trials of life begin with marriage."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."

"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife."

"Everybody grows but me."

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