"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machines — always buzzing, humming, soaring, diving, and then buried in a bog. And the only way in which I can manage it and make it work is by turning …"

"Great minds are androgynous."

"Yes, I was thinking: we live without a future. That's what's queer: with our noses pressed to a closed door."

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."

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