Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.