What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.