My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.