“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”

“I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.”

“I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.”

“All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.”

“Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.”

“Now piercèd is her virgin zone;She feels the foe within it.She hears a broken amorous groan,The panting lover's fainting moan,Just in the happy minute.”

“any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense”