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.

In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

... 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.

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.