Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.