“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

The stairs of our industry must be accessible to all. Let’s climb.

Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer.

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.

Fighting for equality is a celebration of independence. Fighting for black lives is a celebration of independence.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Gender equality can only become a reality if we harness the transformative power of solidarity across professions and across borders.