Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it alo...ud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it--although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, ofte...n ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent "I," the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have tossed hours upon the tides of fever, Upon the billows of my bood have ridden,... Where fish of fancy teem as neither river Nor ocean spawns from India to Sweden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain st...rength for the coming years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology before ... there were two hundred and eight bones in the b...ody. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... my aim is now, as it has been for the past ten years, to make myself a true woman, one worthy of the name, and one who will un...shrinkingly follow the path which God marks out, one whose aim is to do all of the good she can in the world and not be one of the delicate little dolls or the silly fools who make up the bulk of American women, slaves to society and fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »