An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.