You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.