If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

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.