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— Harriet Martineau"Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient."
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Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.
— Louise Bogan
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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