“There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too.”

“That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.”

“Most certain things are the most changeable.”

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”

“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”

“A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. ”

“Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey the blood and everything is sex on them, even the spirit.”