Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.