The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.