The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

- Henry Handel Richardson

Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too g…

- Henry Handel Richardson

To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at t…

- Henry Handel Richardson

In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the …

- Henry Handel Richardson

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

- Henry Handel Richardson

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!

- Henry Handel Richardson