"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

"Across the broad continent of a woman’s life, her biography is almost entirely a blank."

"As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking."

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

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of emancipation itself."

"Indeed, if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance."

"It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men."

"Literature is open to everybody."

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

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

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

"If you are in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%."

"If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person."