“Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.”

“I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.”

“Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”

“When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.”

“754. Absence cools moderate Passions, but inflames violent ones.”

“I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”

“But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.”

“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”

“A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.”