Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

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.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Conflict is the very essence of life.