No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.