"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their courage. I like their completeness. I like their absence of humbug."

"I am reading Six of One by Mrs. W. K. Clifford. It is about a girl who falls in love with her brother. She is quite mad, but then so are all women."

"I am a woman, and I have no country."

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

"The truth is, I am a very difficult woman to live with."