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

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

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.

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

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.