No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.