I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.
The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover, and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.
Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way. " It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.
What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.
The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.