Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. |
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth |
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. |
Right now, the water just looks dirty, but it is safe. |
She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul. |
She was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them. |
The fear of life which is the beginning of all evil.... |
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. |
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. |
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. |
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. |
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. |
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. |