Occupation: Author Birth: March 21, 1905 Death: February 22, 1978
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men cha….
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all..
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature..
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man..
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession..
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away..
Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business..
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the ….
Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things a….
Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable..
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is ….
I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; w….
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little girls can draw conclusions….
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart..
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of th….
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men th….
Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new….
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. ….
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer ….
People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick..
Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People….