We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?