War is not women's history.

Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.