Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, …

- Kay Boyle

Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

- Kay Boyle

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

- Kay Boyle

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

- Kay Boyle

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

- Kay Boyle

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

- Kay Boyle

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

- Kay Boyle

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

- Kay Boyle

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

- Kay Boyle