"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of the mind."

"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."

"I have lost the power to be happy."

"I am rooted, but I flow."