Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”

“I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so since…”

“And I am a hard woman, -impossible to put off.”

“No es la violencia quien desarraiga el odio, ni la venganza quien lava la injur…”