An editor once said to me, "If I didn't know that you, a woman, had written these poems, I would like your work." And once an edit...or wrote me, "Your poems are dynamic, colorful, exciting, but too strong for a woman."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King--my republican feelings and p...rinciples forbid it--the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel of ...activity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted th...at he was Georges Clemenceau.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings... of dictatorship by somebody else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the cours...e that will prevent a further effort on the part of the German peoples to continue the struggle for world domination, even though they are thoroughly beaten in this war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now comes this Russian diversion. If it is more than just that it will mean the liberation of Europe from Nazi domination--and at ...the same time I do not think we need to worry about the possibility of any Russian domination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »