You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one.

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.

The secret of effective living is detachment

Let's stop judging others, and relieve them of the heavy burden they are carrying on their shoulders because of us.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.