It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.