She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.