I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.
We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
I must try to be alone for part of each year. . . and part of each day. . . in order to keep my core, my center. . . Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.
The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood. . . is the hardest lesson of all.
I had the feeling. . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture.