"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre"

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed"

"Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn"

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"

"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others"

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his"