What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Iteration is the mother of invention.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives and mothers.