I have often been downcast but never in despair; 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.

— Anne Frank

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are perfect at heart.

— Anne Frank

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

— Anne Frank

I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday

— Anne Frank

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

— Anne Frank

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

— Anne Frank

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

— Anne Frank

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are perfect at heart.

— Anne Frank

In spite of everything I still believe that people are perfect at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

— Anne Frank

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. A what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

— Anne Frank