No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.

- Gwen Bristow

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

- Gwen Bristow

We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us al…

- Gwen Bristow

being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

- Gwen Bristow

uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to b…

- Gwen Bristow

You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.

- Gwen Bristow

The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor a…

- Gwen Bristow

We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now w…

- Gwen Bristow