Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.