"A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad...." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?”

“Many a crownCovers bald foreheads.”

“I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use”

“leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing”

“I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.”

“Everyone smiles in the same language.”

“The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'”

“A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.”

“A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.”