It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
Alice Duer MillerPeople love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
Alice Duer MillerA child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world
Alice Duer MillerIt is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
Alice Duer MillerLove will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
Alice Duer MillerMen are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
Alice Duer MillerIt is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
Alice Duer MillerGood manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
Alice Duer MillerRare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
Alice Duer MillerConversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
Alice Duer MillerWhen a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer MillerListening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
Alice Duer MillerNo one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.
Alice Duer MillerMen are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.
Alice Duer Miller