One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.