"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
"Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure"