If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.