And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Let us reason according to the Scriptures.

Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth!

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

It’s not getting to the wall that counts; it’s what you do after you hit it.

You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)