I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.

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

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

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

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

I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.