Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

I like any place that isn't here.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.