Mary Augusta Ward

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.