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

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

- Kay Boyle

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's a…

- Kay Boyle

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

- 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

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

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