"A bachelor is only half a man"

“By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends.”

“I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.”

“If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.”

“My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.”

“She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.”

“And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.”

“Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.63, The Floating Press

“After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.273, University of Illinois Press