I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.