By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing…

To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple — you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that …

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

It's a terrible thing to be alone — yes it is — it is — but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath — as terrible as you like — but a mask.

I'm a writer first & a woman after.