'...and am I to stay here, attitudinizing among my memories like a sort of female Tithonus', from 'The muses tragedy';

'...we took our seats in a lecture hall half full of strenuous females in ulsters'; '...fitting out her subject with a whole wardrobe of slop-shop epithets irrelevant in cut and size'; '...for a whole winter I carried my cough, my themometre and my idleness from one fashionable orange grove to another', from 'The pelican';

'Nothing is more perplexing to the mental process of man than a woman who reasons her emotions'; '...she implored with a tearful prodigality of italics'; 'I know how very particular nice Americans are'; from 'Belated souls';