One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

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.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

Stay at the center and let all things take their course.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?