But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.