There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.
Margaret HalseyA lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.
Margaret Halseydemocracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
Margaret HalseyEquality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
Margaret HalseyEnglish life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
Margaret HalseyThe feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take their place on the shelf along with the belief in witches and the notion that the earth is the center of the solar system. Nobody knows as yet whether the future [of the race situation] is hopeless. All we know is that it can be made hopeless, if enough people choose to consider it so.
Margaret Halsey