For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.