"The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think."

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their minds, their bodies, their conversation, their wit, their beauty, their ideas, their clothes, their courage, their independence, their gaiety, their seri…"

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

"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."

"I am a woman, and I have a right to my own opinions."