However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.

If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.

Instead of living together (in a joint family) with a difference of opinions, it is better to live separately and live with unity.

Every human being begins and ends the same way, but how much they love the humanity distinguish him from others.

The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.