genius has no limit of sex or race.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Soul, what have I to do with you?

No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.