She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.