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

"I like funerals. They are brave things."

"I am like a piece of driftwood."

"I am a woman, and I have a right to my own opinions."

"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."