To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

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

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself ''superior.''

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

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