I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls . . ."

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."

"I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!"