In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Love grows by service.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

It's only water, " she said."Tell that to a drowning man, " Giddon said.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.