I am seriously convinced that before the female sex can be raised from its low level there will have to be a widespread revolt against sexual instinct.

Christianity couldn't spread over the world without help of the ascetic ideal, and this great movement for woman's emancipation must also have its ascetics.' 'I can't declare that you are wrong in that.

Who knows?
But it isn't good policy to preach it to our young disciples.' 'I shall respect your wish; but--' Rhoda paused and shook her head.
'My dear,' said the elder woman gravely, 'believe me that the less we talk or think about such things the better for the peace of us all.

The odious fault of working-class girls, in town and country alike, is that they are absorbed in preoccupation with their animal nature.

We, thanks to our education and the tone of our society, manage to keep that in the background.