Pierre Corneille

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.