“Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”

“No man is a man until he has been a soldier.”

“Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable...”

“Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridicul...”

“That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.”

“Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”