“It's very odd...that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You never hear of values in a picture shrinking; but rents, stocks, real estate--all those values shrink abominably.”

“Valuing is creating: hear it, you creators! Valuing itself is the treasure and jewel of all valued things.”

“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex; naturally this is so. Yet is it the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and sport are "important"; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes "trivial." And these values are inevitably transferred from life to fiction. This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”

“Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.”

“Never shrink from making a difference.”

“Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.”