"Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.”

“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.”

“Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.”

“No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.”

“Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.”

“Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.”

“I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.”