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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. More about this quote
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. More about this quote
It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of...
As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. More about this quote
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to...
It was . . . enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race...
[I]f it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were...
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. More about this quote
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over...
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and...
The cloud never comes in the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. More about this quote
After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our...
Whenever people say we mustn't be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And, if they add,...
I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this...
To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers...
All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage...
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least...
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...
I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.Source: In Woman, 9 Apr...
An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to...
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