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

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?

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.

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.

I have been both a ghost and haunted in the city I love.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Steroids are used in all sports.

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.

Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.

Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!

Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we've most likely to overlook.

We believe that Almighty God has sent us Adolf Hitler so that he may rid Germany of the hypocrites and Pharisees.

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.