The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.
Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.
Gossiping is the plague of little towns.
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.
Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.