This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.