"I hate the thought of being a woman, to be known, to be famous."

"The human brain is a funny thing: it will see what it wants to see and ignore what it does not."

"Why do we always think of the past as so much more beautiful than the present?"

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be a woman. I am so glad I am not a woman."

"For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the s…"