For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.