“You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.”

“your circumstances do not make you who you are!”

“Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.”

“It’s about what you’re willing to give, not what is demanded of you.”

“The battle for popularity is won, but the war for respect as a whole person is lost.”

“But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race, and would rise above the virtue of morals, if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.”

“I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.”