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.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

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

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

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.