A Phone of Their Own . |
'I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being. |
[Queen Victoria] knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace, only its inherited force, and cumulative sense of power, making it remarkable. |
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. |
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. |
a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears on the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there. |
A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time. |
A woman must have money and a room of her own |
A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction |
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! |
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. |
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm |
Arrange whatever pieces come your way |
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world. |
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. |