Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace -- desperate, perhaps, but peace.

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much! (Buck, 57).

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

Love alone could waken love.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.