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a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction;
Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Why are women, judging from this catalogue, so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
They had been written in the red light of emotion and not in the white light of truth.
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge.
I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
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.
