It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of? The Return of the Native (1878)
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong. Jude the Obscure (1895)
To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue. The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine. The Return of the Native (1878)