People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

The act of love is a confession.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.