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

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

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings . . . it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes in literature.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

ONE CANNOT THINK WELL, LOVE WELL, SLEEP WELL, IF ONE HAS NOT DINED WELL.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes… change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.