The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world; to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions; to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.