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.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

He who demands little gets it.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.