All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

... France is the genius among nations.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.