I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

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 government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.