For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
语言是唇上的美酒。
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
有些人去找牧师；有些人去找诗歌；我则去找我的朋友。
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
我不断地被塑造和重塑。不同的人从我这里引出不同的话语。
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
人越老，就越喜欢不正经的东西。
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
事实上，我常常喜欢女人。我喜欢她们的不拘一格。我喜欢她们的完整。我喜欢她们的匿名性。
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.