Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle(pseudonym Colette)

French novelist

wrote novels "L'Envers du music-hall" 1913, "Cheri" 1920, "La Fin de Cheri" 1926, "Gigi" 1945

• "I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."
• "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
• "Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave."
• "A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
• "There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."