Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity, it led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.