I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

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

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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

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

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

We are made of all those who have built and broken us.

He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog?" said that mute caress.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.

By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.