Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

Haven't you ever heard of the saying, "If you want to shoot the general, first shoot the horse!"?' --LinIf you wanna shoot the general, then you should just SHOOT THE GENERAL!' --Ed

When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!

That which is most personal, is most interesting.