The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.