Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off...
When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind...
What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare...
The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.
Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls.
It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love t...
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch...
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
I am accused. I dream of massacres.I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them,Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the
Character is fate.
Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling...
Already she feels jaded. Weary, and gladly tired and old.
A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
I fancied you'd return the way you said,But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tendern...