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.

Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

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

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.

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!

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

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?