Occupation: Writer Birth: June 26, 1892 Death: March 6, 1973
All birth is unwilling..
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mer….
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive..
Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless..
As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them..
A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food..
There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food..
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….
It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to ….
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now..
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them..
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love..
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself..
For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and….
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 ….
My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried w….
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease..
endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter roo….
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman..
People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the thin….
Life is the wonder with which we are all infused..