Who said “Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and…”?

“The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls.”

“Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.”

“A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”

“We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.”

“What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.”

“Housekeeping ain't no joke.”

“Love is a great beautifier.”

“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”

“That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.”

“It takes two flints to make a fire.”

“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.”