It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

No religion can be built on force.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

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.