No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Women alone stir my imagination.

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

As a woman, I have no country

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.