Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house, and clothing are mine forever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me.

She liked to be alone; she liked to be herself

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room. Women must put off their rich apparel. At midday they must disrobe.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?