Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

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 history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Thinking is my fighting.

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