Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Taught from 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.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.

In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sighing Of Greece.

If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.

My head works in music, so there's always music there.

Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

Even if I'm eating healthy, I let myself indulge with french fries. That's my favorite thing. You only live once!

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.