You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

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

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.

nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.