"I am not an Englishwoman. I am a Jewess. I am a woman. I am a writer. I am a human being. I am a creative artist. I am a person who loves life and hates death."

"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 have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

"The only way to keep one's health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

"The world is a work of art, and I am its creator."