"I am fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall."

"I am a great deal interested suddenly in my book. I want to bring in the despicableness of people like Ott. I want to give the slipperiness of the soul."

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

"I am not an Englishwoman. I am a Jewess. I am a woman. I am a writer. I am a human being. I am a creative artist. I am a person who loves life and hates death."

"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."