She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned... - Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."