Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.