The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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

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

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.