But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys, " objected Elnora."Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people...

It was a boyish thing to do and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart, as the boy element in a man ever appeals to a motherly woman.

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

A day of Rest is always needed.

All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

...we can love someone without understanding that person.

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.