[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

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.

You can save hundred words with just one look!

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

It's not what you say, but how you say it!

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.