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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. - Author object (350)

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? - Author object (350)

Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Author object (350)

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. - Author object (350)

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? - Author object (350)

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. - Author object (350)

I am rooted, but I flow. - Author object (350)

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. - Author object (350)

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. - Author object (350)

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. - Author object (350)

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. - Author object (350)

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. - Author object (350)

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. - Author object (350)

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street. - Author object (350)

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. - Author object (350)

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. - Author object (350)

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. - Author object (350)

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. - Author object (350)

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! - Author object (368)

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. - Author object (368)