I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.