I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.