"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."

"The greatest gift is to give of oneself."

"Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity—these three—and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?"

"The world is not a school to teach us what we want to learn, but a school to teach us what we ought to learn."

"I am not an angel, I am a woman, and I have a woman's weaknesses."