You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.