Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

“I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it; fame and missed it;…”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my coun…”

“Voglio donare, voglio che mi si doni, e voglio solitudine in cui svelare i miei…”

“Yet it is true that there was an absent mindedness about her which sometimes ma…”