I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I…

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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a...

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a...

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in...

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman...

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman...

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a...

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a...

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,...

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,...

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from...

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no...

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no...

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble...

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble...