If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.

If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”

A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

What is life but organized energy?

There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.