What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

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

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.