You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.