There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?