Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.

memory is a storm I can't repel.

Only ignorant people think they have all the answers, intelligent people are full of doubts.

At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope - that the good fortune of others might one day be hers

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

I'm inspired by my faith of course, and all the different people around me.

Target SME's and you target women because that is where they access the business sector.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!