I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

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

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

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

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