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

I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.