But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?--the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; t...he self that took the veil and left the world--a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, wit...h all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your no...tebooks and keep on the mantlepiece for ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have ...minded beyond reason the opinions of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even n...ow as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invalua...ble most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young women ... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You hav...e never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...it is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-ma...nly or man-womanly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »