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.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.

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

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.

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

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.