"Do you think I want to rob you of your trinkets because I happen to have given them to you?
Keep them, they may be useful one day when you have a husband and a family and no money.
Pearls may pay the butcher and the rent." "Thank you for all your kindness, Aunt, and good-bye.

I am sorry that I am not able to do as you wish about marriage, but after all a woman's life is her own." "That's just what it isn't and never has been.

A woman's life is her husband's and her children's, and that's why--but it is no use arguing.
You have taken your own line.

Perhaps you are right, God knows.

At any rate, it isn't mine, so we had better part.