What beautiful things have you fancied about us ?" "I have dreamed of woman's mission, and of woman's love.

I have fancied that woman and woman's love represented the ruling spirit, as man and man's brain represent the moving agent, in the world.

I have drawn pictures of an age in which real chivalry of word and thought and deed might be the only law necessary to control men's actions.

Not the scenic and theatrical chivalry of the middle age, ready at any moment to break out into epidemic crime, but a true reverence and understanding of woman's supreme right to honour and consideration; an age wherein it should be no longer coarsely said that love is but an episode in the brutal life of man, while to woman it is life itself.

I have dreamed that the eternal womanhood of the universe beckoned me to follow." The Countess could not take her eyes off Claudius.