Biology is destiny only for girls.

Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

Biology is destiny only for girls.