"That cold January day - and so many people... I'd never imagined it would happen nowadays."

“Gradually he showed me everybody was going to help me in this...it was not a terrifying thing, but a great challenge.”

“One may well use one’s head even though one is in love. Someone has said that one cannot prevent lightening from striking – but one may prevent the whole town from burning down.”

“I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.”

“One would not die from my cooking, but I am not sure one would survive my driving.”

“One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.”

“I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.”