“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”

“Every woman is a rebel.”

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”

“A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

“Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.”

“Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.”