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

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.