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.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

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

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

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.