Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English!
Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind it, so terribly accustomed to concealment and suppression, that they are off at the flicker of an eye turned observingly...
Anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
And even a tea party means apprehension, breakage
When you are silent you are again beautiful.
There are some books that LIVE, she mused. They are young with us, and they grow old with us.
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights)...
I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.
I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.
Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.
Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life—one scratched on the wall.
All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used...
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority.
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the...