Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? – George Eliot
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Whos sorry for a gnat or girl? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning