"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."

"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by it. I am sick of it. I am tired of being told by men what I am, what I may be, what I may not be. I am tired of being told by men that I am not a ma…"

"Why do we always think of the past as so much more beautiful than the present?"