College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.