Quotes by Florence Converse

"But a girl’s love is not a woman’s love; above all, it is not a modern woman’s love. I, at thirty, cannot accept your views, adopt your methods, and believe your heresies, as you might be able to teach me to do if I were eighteen, - and if I loved you. I have found out my own life-truths, and they do not accord with yours."

"And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!"

"Don’t you think that although you have the sorrows of humanity at heart, sometimes you are a little impatient with the sorrows of particular men?"