I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.