When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

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 bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.