Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

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