One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

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 want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.