Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

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.

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.

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.

Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end.

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling.

Madison, or “Maddie, ” as she preferred, wondered what could be at the end of that road.

We'll become whoever we trust the most says we are.

I don't think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else.

Blood for life. Life for life. Changeling justice.

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.