Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.