A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.