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.

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

Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.

Sadly, some folks don’t live . . . they merely exist.

No...he lives to create art, but he loves to murder.

We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

Be judicious with your budget and buy things that are going to last.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.