"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machines — always buzzing, humming, soaring, diving, and then buried in a bog. And the only way in which I can manage it and make it work is by turning …"

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by the male view of life. I am nauseated by the male fiction."

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of the mind."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."