Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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 throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.