I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.