Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.