I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.