"I have an immense desire to be alone; and yet I am afraid of solitude."

"The human face is the most astounding and the most grotesque of all objects in the world."

"I am a woman, and I have no country."

"The only way to keep one's health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"