For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.