Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
You are one of the forces of nature.