"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
"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."
"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"