I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be..

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong c….

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggesti….

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things..

I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnif….

I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down u….

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and….

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness..

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell..

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman..

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but….

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably….

I want to live quietly..

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together wit….

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius..

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel….

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the….

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis..

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius..

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother..

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings..