Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.