All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

You have to taste a culture to understand it.

People don't exist without the past, I know. But the past isn't alive. It's you who's alive.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.

Now I do have a choice, and I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

Every little obstacle-every fall you have-is an opportunity.