Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.