"An engaged woman is always more agreeable..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.”

“I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.”

“[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.”

“The man who puts into the marriage only halfof what he owns will get that out.”

“There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”

“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.”

“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”