...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.

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.

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.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

Solve your problems or your problems solve you.

Kindness begins in the heart of a willing mind.

I'm not on good terms with any of my exes. That's why we're not together anymore. We're not friends.

Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

That's more than you know about anything else then.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate