Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

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.

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.