Our Faith In The Present Dies Out

So Much Of The Trouble Is Because I Am A Woman. To Me It Seems A Very Terrible Thing To Be A Woman. There Is One Crown Which Perhaps Is Worth It All--a Great Love, A Quiet Home, And Children. We All Know That Is All That Is Worthwhile, And Yet We Must Peg Away, Showing Off Our Wares On The Market If We Have Money, Or Manufacturing Careers For Ourselves If We Haven't.

Culture Is Not A Biologically Transmitted Complex

... It Is A Commonplace That Men Like War. For Peace, In Our Society, With The Feeling We Have Then That It Is Feeble-minded To Strive Except For One's Own Private Profit, Is A Lonely Thing And A Hazardous Business. Over And Over Men Have Proved That They Prefer The Hazards Of War With All Its Suffering. It Has Its Compensations.

The Japanese Are, To The Highest Degree, Both Aggressive And Unaggressive, Both Militaristic And Aesthetic, Both Insolent And Polite, Rigid And Adaptable, Submissive And Resentful Of Being Pushed Around, Loyal And Treacherous, Brave And Timid, Conservative And Hospitable To New Ways.

Faith Is The Virtue Of The Storm, Just As Happiness Is The Virtue Of Sunshine.