love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.