"Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, w…"

"The greatest joy of all is to be free."

"The greatest beauty is to be found in deformity."

"My only pleasure is to do what is forbidden."

"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."