"I hate the thought of being a woman, to be known, to be famous."

"The mind of a woman, for instance, is like a room with a thousand doors."

"Yes, I was thinking: we live without a future. That's what's queer: with our noses pressed to a closed door."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

"I am reading Six of One by Mrs. W. K. Clifford. It is about a girl who falls in love with her brother. She is quite mad, but then so are all women."