Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

I must work, so as not to be a fool, to get on, to become a journalist, because that's what I want!... I can't imagine that I would have to lead the same sort of life as Mummyand all the women who do their work and are then forgotten. I must have something besides a husband and children, something that I can devote myself to!

I wish to go on living even after my death.

Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.

by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.