Occupation: Author Birth: May 17, 1873 Death: June 17, 1957
Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait..
... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves..
The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think..
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bo….
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation..
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women..
Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms..
A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life..
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material..
Men would always rather be made love to than talked at..
Every thought vibrates through the universe..
It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person..
The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distract….
Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them..
The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view..
People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying..
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster..
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought..
Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving….
until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterne….
Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty..