so that it may grow fatter and

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.

Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.

... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something.

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.

All salvation is temporary

Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

Focus only on things you love, feel love, and you will experience that love and joy coming back to you - multiplied!

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.