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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...more

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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for giganti...more

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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...more

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with hi...more

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Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigor...more

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means sig...more

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We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

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Life, how I have dreaded you," said Rhoda, "oh, human beings, how I have hated you! How you have nudged, how you have interrupted, how hideous you hav...more

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There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own o...more

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In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances