"Yes, I was thinking: we live without a future. That's what's queer: with our noses pressed to a closed door."

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"I am reading Six of One by Mrs. W. K. Clifford. It is about a girl who falls in love with her brother. She is quite mad, but then so are all women."

"I am reading the life of Queen Victoria. She was a very stupid woman."

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by the male view of life. I am nauseated by the male fiction."