All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. - Virginia Woolf

Society is the most powerful conception in the world and society has no existence whatsoever.

Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; making a scene come right; making a character come together. From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; at any rate it is a constant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we — I mean all human beings — are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

... we can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.