The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.