Occupation: Writer Birth: June 26, 1892 Death: March 6, 1973
It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving..
doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you w….
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writin….
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all..
To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge o….
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world..
No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son..
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,….
What the common man cannot understand he hates..
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter..
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease..
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday..
The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over..
The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women ….
The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see….
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well..
I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer th….
Believing in gods always causes confusion..
From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America..
there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and ….
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whate….