One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

- Alice James

Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and n…

- Alice James

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, fri…

- Alice James

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

- Alice James

Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for mater…

- Alice James

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and s…

- Alice James

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

- Alice James

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

- Alice James

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

- Alice James