I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire. " (From Rebecca)
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!
If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.