I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.

... we each have our fleeting hour.

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.