A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.