“Women's rights, that antediluvian topic.”

“All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“Women made civilisation impossible with all their “charm ” all their silliness.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees, ... one's happiness, one's reality?”

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”