"I am quite determined to be very impertinent."

"To be disgraced in the eyes of the world, to be ashamed of one's self! That is the misery, that is the horror!"

"I am not at all ashamed of being a little romantic myself."

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"