Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

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

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.