I'm a writer first and a woman after.

That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.