And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim. - George Sand

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

My mother declared that I was so sensible that they were not called upon to treat me like a child. The poor woman did not realize that she herself was much more of a child than I.

Con mi salvaje orgullo, debería haber sido una mujer superior y escoger de un vistazo, como un águila, entre todos aquellos hombres insulsos, falsos y vacuos, uno de esos seres verdaderos y nobles que son escasos y excepcionales en todos los tiempos. Era demasiado ignorante, demasiado limitada para eso. A fuerza de vivir, adquirí más juicio, me di cuenta de que algunos de entre ellos, que en mi odio había confundido, merecían otros sentimientos. Pero para entonces ya era demasiado vieja.