No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-…

- Zelda Popkin

of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live…

- Zelda Popkin

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

- Zelda Popkin

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

- Zelda Popkin

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

- Zelda Popkin

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

- Zelda Popkin

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

- Zelda Popkin

The newer education put stress on culture ... Saturday mornings, the young were brushed and washed, forced into blue cheviot suits, and dragged to ch…

- Zelda Popkin

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

- Zelda Popkin