The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.

There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be permitted. It is a disgrace to a civilized country.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.