Occupation: Writer Birth: June 26, 1892 Death: March 6, 1973
The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change..
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow….
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or late….
The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources..
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself..
music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful..
Life is the wonder with which we are all infused..
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, p….
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..
the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat….
No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the….
Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against ….
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I….
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings..
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women..
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free..
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds..
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it i….
It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one..
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my ….
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that h….