“Her personality is a singular mixture of untutored instincts joined to an ultra-modern subtlety of brain and nerves.”

Capturing the collision of instinct with a highly modern intelligence · Introduction to The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (1890)

• Art
• Truth

“Did we but know it the same revolts, the same struggles, the same helpless rage, have gone on in many another woman's life for want of scope for her latent powers and faculties.”

Recognising a widespread frustration of women's unrealised abilities · Introduction to The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (1890)

• Despair
• Freedom

“Every author usually writes one book, which he might more or less justly entitle 'My Confessions,' into which he pours an intimate part of his life under a thin disguise of fiction.”

Suggesting that one work often contains an author's most intimate disguised self-portrait · Biography, George Eliot (1883)

• Art
• Memory
• Truth