Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice JamesYou must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
Alice JamesI think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.
Alice James