"I am fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall."

"The mind of a woman, for instance, is like a room with a thousand doors."

"Really, I don't like human beings at all, except as a general proposition."

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."

"I am rooted, but I flow."