There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.