[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.