There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.