“Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.”
“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
“I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.”
“What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”
“She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like to think they decide matters for themselves.”