"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"You can not gain peace by avoiding life."

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size."

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."

"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."

"One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."

"People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them."

"Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds."

"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire."

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."