She seemed to put an enormous amount of energy into those cleanings-as if they were a sort of safety valve. - Edna Ferber

This is certain: I never have written a line except to please myself. I never have written with an eye to what is called the public or the market or the trend or the editor or the reviewer. Good or bad, popular or unpopular, lasting or ephemeral, the words I have put down on paper were the best words I could summon at the time to express the thing I wanted more than anything else to say.

New life must come from within. As for contentment-I don't even want it.

It takes a determined woman to make tea biscuit for no one but herself.