“The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me…since the hideous summer of ’78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed… — Alice James Copy Share Image
“In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67 or ’68 when I broke down first, acutely, and had violent turns of hysteria. As I lay prostrate… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. — Alice James Copy Share Image
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the… — Alice James Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. — Alice James Copy Share Image
“The paralytic on his couch can have if he wants them wider experiences than Stanley slaughtering the savages, the two roomed cottage may enclose… — Alice James Copy Share Image
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four… — Alice James Copy Share Image
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. — Alice James Copy Share Image
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. — Alice James Copy Share Image
