age is nothing but death that is conscious.

Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.