On this subject she was passionately in earnest; she knew to a farthing the amount of her loss, and when I persisted in telling her how you and I had parted, she only reiterated in a more angry manner her former directions and assurances on this subject.
"After a very spare dinner she was more attentive to my trouble.

She said it had become a serious question in nearly all married lives--" "I deny that, Jane.

The large majority of women, I am sure, when they marry do not hold themselves outraged and degraded by the consequences, nor do they consider natural functions less honorable than social ones.
Money can release a woman from work, but it cannot release her from any service of love." "Men forget very easily the physical sufferings of wives.

I love our little Martha as well as, perhaps better than, you do, but I remember clearly that for nearly a whole year I endured the solitude, sickness, and acute suffering of maternity.

And whatever else you do, you will _never_ persuade me to like having children.