Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

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.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.