You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
Rise to the occassion which is life!
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?
It has the permanent quality of literature.
Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered
Is it not possible — I often wonder — that things we have felt with great intensity have an experience independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by whi...
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess — to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficul...
Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
Sometime don’t think don’t say don’t do…is the best way to deal with life!
It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
