Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity