“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”

“En todos existe un centro muy profundo en el que sólo reina la verdad...y “saber” consiste en abrir un camino para que pueda escapara el esplendor aprisionado para que llegue la luz que no esperamos.”

“...el pesado traje de buzo es el cuerpo físico y el mar es el océano de la vida. Al nacer, el hombre se pone el traje de buzo, pero su espíritu está conectado siempre por una cuerda a la luz de arriba. El hombre desciende a las profundidades del mar de la tristeza y la mortalidad para buscar tesoros escondidos de sabiduría, pues la experiencia y la comprensión son perlas valiosísimas y para ganarlas el hombre debe soportar toda clase de cosas. Cuando encuentra el tesoro, lo izan al bote y, quitándose la pesada escafandra, respira el aire fresco y vuelve a sentirse LIBRE. Los sabios se dan cuenta de que este incidente que llamamos vida es solamente un viaje al fondo del mar, que hemos estado allí muchas veces y volveremos a bajar hasta que encontremos el tesoro...”

“I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful to find a lump of wax and wood laid in my bosom, a half-idiot clasped in my arms, and to remember that I had made of this my equal- nay, my idol- to know that I must pass the rest of my dreary life with a creature incapable of understanding what I said, of appreciating what I thought, or of sympathising with what I felt!”

“You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have often thought so - and I think too that the mode of bringing them up is strange, they are not half sufficiently guarded from temptation - Girls are protected as if they were something very frail and silly indeed while boys are turned loose on the world as if they - of all beings in existence, were the wisest and the least liable to be led astray.”