I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Rare is he who will concede genius.

Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.

... privation is the source of appetite.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.