The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.
Unpaid work never commands respect.
Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in history who, unaided by any political party, won enfranchisement by its own effort. . . and achieved the victory without the shedding of a drop of human blood. All honor to women of the world!
Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.
If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.
I have always thought that L. A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
You'll never meet a nicer person, let alone a nicer actress, than Mary Steenburgen.