“Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself”

“What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.”

“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.”

“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman... Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”

“There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

“If you have knowledge , let others light their candles in it.”

“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”