Pastoral Resources

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.