Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
From Ellen Glasgow
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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