Important Quotations Explained
1. Call me
Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or any other name you please—it
is not a matter of importance.
2. A woman
must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
3. One must
strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions
and so reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.
4. It would
have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to
have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
5. Life for
both sexes—and I look at them, shouldering their way along the pavement—is
arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic
courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of
illusion that we are, it calls for confidence in oneself.
