Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

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

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

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.