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

The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

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

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

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

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.