A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.