The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

Nothing fails like failure

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.