I am rooted, but I flow.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.