There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

Women's work is always toward wholeness.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .