The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.