Quotes from Gerson Noel Bertram

Marriage was a noble institution, she declared, provided the husband did not take unfair advantage of his superior legal position and the wife did not succumb to the pressures of society and become a nonentity.

she was determined to overcome her loneliness. She allowed no one else to know of the inner struggle, and she fought the battle alone, realizing that no one could help her. The

of Shelley's masterpiece was not vague,

only the timid, the insecure and the ignorant conformed to the rules that society made.