Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

I am mentally bifocal.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.