One faces the future with one's past.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.