I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

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

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.