You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

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.

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.

...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.

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.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness