A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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Pearl S. Buck
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About Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Pearl S. BuckI don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
One faces the future with one's past.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.