I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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.

Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.