...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

Unbelief hardness human heart to be like a rock.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

Don’t just stand there; make something happen.

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.