Mina Murray Quotes

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”

“Though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”

“How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”

“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

“We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked.”

“For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.”

“She has man’s brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”