...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.