Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

- Eliza Lynn Linton

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

- Eliza Lynn Linton

What kind of work would be done if Hercules took to spinning wool in safe places, while Omphales turned out to do battle with monsters in his stead? …

- Eliza Lynn Linton

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the h…

- Eliza Lynn Linton

I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more …

- Eliza Lynn Linton

I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman b…

- Eliza Lynn Linton

There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.

- Eliza Lynn Linton