"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

"It is fatal to be a man or a woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly."

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by the male view of life. I am nauseated by the male fiction."

"I am not very bright. My mind is like a rusty weathercock."