Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.