When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' They are saying in effect, 'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.