"The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion."

"Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life."

"A life like mine annoys most people; they go to their jobs every day, attend to things, give orders, pummel typewrite…"

"It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist."

"New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who l…"

"I am putting old heads on your young shoulders," Miss Brodie had told them at that time, "and all my pupils are the c…"

"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever …"

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of s…"

"Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian c…"

"She writes well and concisely, and this has tended to obscure the psychological superficiality and sheer petty malice…"