If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

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

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

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