As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
