I have been thinking ... that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm...
The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!
He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearte...
you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!
