Quotes About Expression

When Beatlemania happened, it was as if the massed multitudes of projected wives-and-mothers of the world had screamed out, with one voice, 'We have been held captive too long, and WE WANT TO BE FREE!

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

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

In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what is above.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

That complete statement which is literature.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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.

Mais, à ce moment précis, je me suis sentie femme, salement femme, comme je ne l'avais jamais senti, comme je ne l'ai plus jamais senti. Défendre ma propre peau ne me permettait pas de blesser un homme.

This is important to point out in a women's magazine, as advice to the readers: OK, so rape is sad, but please don't wail, ladies. It's not dignified. Well, fuck you.

Entre la montre Kitty et le bracelet clouté, elle n'avait pas encore choisi son camp.

Elle aimait L7, Hole, 7 Year bitch, et d'autres trucs assez atroces, que seules les filles peuvent écouter