But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

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

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

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

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

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.