I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
A woman can produce what no man can: a child.
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right. ' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?
[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me. . . and asked me in a whisper. . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can. "
In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.