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

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

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.

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

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.