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.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

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