You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.