"Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood,..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.”

“And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.”

“She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.”

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”

“We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.”

“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

“The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.”

“Though logic-choppers rule the town,And every man and maid and boyHas marked a distant object down,An aimless joy is a pure joy.”

“What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.”