Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.