I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.