My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.