To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.
