Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.

Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?

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

The way to write well is to live intensely.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.