A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage

Twenty-five years ago I made my vow to love you and to live with you wherever you went, " she whispered. "Since you're bound to go, I'd best keep my promise.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.