» If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
» Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
» The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
» Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
» Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
» Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.