What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.