Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.