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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Eliza Lynn Linton

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

— Eliza Lynn Linton

“Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set…

— Eliza Lynn Linton

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

— Eliza Lynn Linton

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

— Eliza Lynn Linton