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.

Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.