“A woman character without allure would be like a Superman without muscle.”

“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”

“Independent character is like independent thought, it cannot be developed without criticism.”

“A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”

“Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.”

“Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.”

“I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.”

“To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue. The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.”

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”

“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”