The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.
Gertrude AthertonThe only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
Gertrude AthertonIt took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
Gertrude AthertonI see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
Gertrude Atherton