My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes d...iscuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application--why, th...e novel is practically the retail business all over again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of the...ir own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, i...nvesting and prospering in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not claim that all women, or a large portion of them, should enter into independent business relations with the world, but I ...do claim that all women should cultivate and respect in themselves an ability to make money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the hu...man currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it... in charge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is a woman's industry. No man will vote our stock, transact our business, pronounce on women's wages, supervise our factories.... Give men whatever work is suitable, but keep the governing power.... Here is a mission, let it be fulfilled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »