Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

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.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.