Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.