Alice Duer Miller Quotes
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.
And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don't think she oughter.
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.