Occupation: Writer Birth: June 26, 1892 Death: March 6, 1973
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real demo….
When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen..
Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away th….
When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there..
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if….
He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loi….
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books….
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one….
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now..
You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend hi….
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it..
Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be..
You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could y….
starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times..
you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come..
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..
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to w….
There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses..
He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolati….
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness..
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a soun….