"The mind has no sex...." - Quote by George Sand

“Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.”

“Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.”

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

“When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.”

“As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.”

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.”

“Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the”

“Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.”

“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”