Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

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.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

To understand is to forgive.

I'm a sucker for a man who giggles—not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

All big changes of the world come from words.

People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.

I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

It isn't enough to feel the pressure of a situation; you must repent and change your heart...When you cry out to God, let it be the beginning of consistent change in your life.