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  • I believe I am unusually brave for a woman. Some girls might have felt downcast over the fact that their patron had declared their work was not as good as some of the others. I am so confoundly confident! It almost scares me at times. ... When I strike the earth, like the giant of old, I rise more violently than before.

  • Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

  • ... a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

  • She looks like her eyes have been taken out and deep-fried ...

  • Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

  • Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish. Art is only a stopgap, an imperfect effort to wrest meaning from an environment where nearly everyone is sleepwalking.

  • Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

  • When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes.