"My life wasn't a bed of roses, but I had a good life."

"I gave women a sense of freedom. I gave them back their bodies: bodies that were drenched in sweat, due to the corsets and underwear, the frills, the lace, the trimmings."

"If a man talks bad about a woman, he is less of a man."

"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness."

"She deserved it."