I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

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.

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

Anything in your life achieved too soon or too freely with little sacrifice is lost too quickly

Silence is a language not all people understand.

Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

What [companies] are doing is they're leaving our country, and they're, believe it or not, leaving because taxes are too high and because some of them have lots of money outside of our country.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.