We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

There is no accounting for human beings.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.