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

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 never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

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

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

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.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.