A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

I always lock the door when I creep by daylight.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.