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“The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.”
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“Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]”
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“Word is a shadow of a deed.”
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“Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.”
Source : "Madness, Rack, and Honey". Book by Mary Ruefle, therumpus.net. August 7, 2012. 
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“[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.”
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“I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.”
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“There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress.”
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“I like to here my own sex praised but not the other.”
Source : Marjorie Fleming (1935). “The complete Marjory Fleming: her journals, letters & verses”
