Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

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.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

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