Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

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

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.