I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was eight, I was confused at being called “bossy,” because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents — but the boys were not.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

Nothing will work unless you do.