The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect--and they move the earth. To some he allots heart--and the... beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence--and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally-...-one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were times when I felt that I could bear no more. It was the Emergency Ward which almost broke me. I stood one night beside ...a man who had been caught in a flywheel, and whose body felt like jelly. I wanted him to die quickly, not to go on breathing. Oh, stop breathing. I can't stand it. Die and stop suffering. I can't stand it. I can't.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genu...ine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I ... hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfille...d, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is ano...ther story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »