Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.
Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.237, Broadview Press
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia”, p.71
Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press