"The truth is, I often like women. I like their minds, their bodies, their conversation, their wit, their beauty, their ideas, their clothes, their courage, their independence, their gaiety, their seri…"

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"How much better to die than to marry Mr. Collins!"

"I am not afraid of death, I am afraid of life."

"I am all for the abolition of all women."