Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

Novels are longer than life.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Eternity - waste of time.

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.