“Time does not live for them, they (girls) live in the absolute. A curious creature. But then all women are curious creatures, girls above all.”

“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”

“Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.”

“I have one brother and I live with four hundred guys. Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across.”

“The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.”

“Disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man.”

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

“Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.”