It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

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

Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?

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.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!