What we call spring here is one rose and two buds that just grew in the cloister garden. That is enough to move the men of my coun...try. But their heart resembles that miserly rose. A more powerful breath would wilt them, they have the spring that they deserve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun,... For aye to be in shady cloister mewed, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they that master so their blood To undergo such maiden pilgrimage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than a...nywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails... Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »