The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.