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

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The mind of man, it has been proved, has never been able to express itself with entire sincerity when women are present.

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.