What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – Margaret Oliphant
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. – Margaret Oliphant
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. – Margaret Oliphant
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. – Margaret Oliphant
I hate it when people dont recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to mens work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal – mens writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. – Ani DiFranco