How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.