Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

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.

You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.