"This is what I will forever hold against men in general: that they have carefully selected out and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not like other girls. Damn, for a woman, you sure are bright as hell!"

“What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.”

Source : Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

“I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.”

“I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.”

“Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.”

“Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.”

“Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.”

“Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.”

“He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.”