A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.