To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

Buying is profound pleasure.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

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.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.