The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Poetry's object is truth.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The typewriter is indeed my passport into a world otherwise barred to me and my kind.

I defendNot my voice, but my silence

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.