“Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.”

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”

“The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness.”

“There is no more consensus on what justice means than there is on the character of the good. If anything, there is less. Among the virtues, justice is one of the most shaped by convention. For that reason it is among the most changeable.”

“I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife, saint—like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.”

“I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.”

“You will say that I am lost;
That, being enamoured,
I lost myself; and yet was found.”

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

“I am all that there is of the most real.”

“I am at heart a gentleman.”