“Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.”

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

“I always wish that you could marry everybody who wants to marry you.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow enter? [. . .] I am sick of the body, I am sick of my own craft, industry and cunning, of the unscrupulous ways of the mother who protects, who collects under her jealous eyes at one long table her own children, always her own.”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”

“All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point — a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”