I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
I am rooted, but I flow.
