Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire oth... - Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."