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

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

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

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

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