... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.
Margaret OliphantI have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.
Margaret OliphantThe ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
Margaret Oliphant