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

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

War is not women's history.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.