“اما رئيس الدولة، فهو غير مسئول عن الشر. انه مسئول فقط عن الخير.”

“Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.”

“My work is not worthy of respect. Why then do you join in it with me?”

“They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.”I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.”

“All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.”

“Now i had learnt that honor required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not be obtained without losing one's honor. An infernal circle whirling round and round, draggng me up and down with it.”

“Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.”