My Function As A Writer Is Not

The Problem Of Good And Evil Is Not The Problem Of Good And Evil, But Only The Problem Of Evil. In Opposition To Good There Are Evil Characters, But There Are No Good Characters In Opposition To Evil. Evil Is Arguable, But Good Is Not. Therefore The Devil Always Wins The Argument.

Because Most People Are Not Sufficiently Employed In Themselves, They Run About Loose, Hungering For Employment, And Satisfy Themselves In Various Supererogatory Occupations. The Easiest Of These Occupations, Which Have All To Do With Making Things Already Made, Is The Making Of People: It Is Called The Art Of Friendship.

There Can Be No Literary Equivalent To Truth.

Women, Ever Since There Have Been Women, Have Had A Way Of Being People.

Every Woman Must Live By Some Sense Of Victory Over Disappointments, And Olympias Was Not The Sort Of Woman To Find Compensation In Her Own Powers Of Self-control And Endurance.