Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

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.

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

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

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.