When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford BarneyWhy grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford BarneyThe past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.
Natalie Clifford BarneyPerhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?
Natalie Clifford Barney