authenticity Quotes

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

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.