The world today doesn't please me.
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.
Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.
[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.
The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.