"Really, I don't like human beings at all, except as a general proposition."

"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…"

"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency…"

"I am reading Six of One by Mrs. W. K. Clifford. It is about a girl who falls in love with her brother. She is quite mad, but then so are all women."