Zitat des Tages von Susan Glaspell:
I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.
We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things.
Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.
We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.
The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?
I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.
We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother's position is to take care of the morals of the child. I don't know how good I would be at that.