Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

It seemed a good idea at the time.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.