Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.