It 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.

People 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.

A 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

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .