To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.