Occupation: Author Birth: March 21, 1905 Death: February 22, 1978
There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident..
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense..
Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore n….
I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate..
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can'….
Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody..
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the ….
These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?.
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet..
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!.
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table ….
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful..
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other ….
Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub..
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing..
suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient..
It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine..
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same..
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child..
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet..
Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters..