I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.
Success is a great healer.
In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.