“The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out.”

“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”

“The intelligence of women is not out in the world, acting on its own behalf; it is kept small, inside the home, acting on behalf of another. This is true even when the woman works outside the home, because she is segregated into women's work, and her intelligence does not have the same importance as the lay of her ass.”

“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”

“When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.”

“True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.”