“... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.”

“Home-life, when one always stays at home, is necessarily narrowing. That is one reason why so many women are petty and unthoughtful of any except their own family's interests. We have hardly begun to live until we can take in the idea of the whole human family as the one to which we truly belong.”

“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”

“And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful.”

“Aren't we all monsters inside?”

“I want you to be with someone who really, really loves you. A wild love! A crazy love! I want yours to be the greatest love story of all time!”