"There is something in me which is not quite proper, for I do not like to be told what to do."

"I wish that every human being should be a master, a master of himself, a master of his own destiny, a master of his own life."

"One is not born a genius, one becomes one."

"The point is not for a woman to be like a man, but to be a woman, to be an individual with her own identity and her own values."

"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."